NEW PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 51, 28 February 1903, Page 2

NEW PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH

ANNIVERSARY SOOIAL. A social mbbtinq of the congregation was held on Thursday evening, and despite the damp and fogety weather was very largely attended. The Rev. VV. R. Woolley presided, and after devotional c-xerctaos brief reports of the year's work were given by Mr B. Qoodacre, treasurer, and Mr W. T. Coad, secretary of the church. Addresses of a sympathetic character were delivered by the Revs. S. J. Serpell, W. Drew, and S. S. Osborne. Ihe programme included songs by Miss Eisie Carthew, Miss B. Drew, and the Misses Ambury and Qoodacre. A violin solo by Mrs Butterworth was rendered with such mastery of the instru ment and taste that the audience insisted upon an encore. Later in the evening the same lady gave a banjo solo, accompanied on the piano by Mr Butterworth Mr T. Duckworth gave an exhibition of Indian Club exercise, which was greatly admired. The choir rendered two anthems very nicely, and with due expression. In the interval refreshments wore handed round, and one of the most pleasant and enjoyable socials ever held in the Gill Street Ohurch was fitly ended with the I singing of the Doxology.