HOME MISSION.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1921, Page 6

HOME MISSION.

WORK FOR BACK BLOCKS. The secretary of the Back Blocks Home Mission desires to acknowledge with grateful thanks a donation of £1 Is from Mr. Newton King. The 2nd annual bazaar is to be held on Friday, December 16, at Uruti. Gift days to furnish the stalls have been, or are to be, held in Urenui, Uruti-Okau, Pehu, Pukearuhe, and very possibly Awakino. The Victoria ■ League in New Plymouth are having a gift afternoon very shortly; Mrs. W. 11. Skinner held one last month for the same purpose. A working bee, with Miss A. Marshall, of 277, Courtenay Street, as secretary, is very busily serving for the bazaar, so that the bazaar should be fully stocked and well worth patronising. The presidents of the committees are as follows:—Waitara, Rev. Mr. Gavin; Urenui, Mrs. Pigott: Pukearlihe, Mrs. Freeth; Uruti, W. Butt, senr.; Okau. Mrs. Greenwood; Awakino, Miss. Nora Thompson; Victoria League, New Plymouth. Mrs. C. H. Burgess; Home Mission. New Plymouth, Archdeacon Evans. Though the bazaar is to be held at Uruti, which is a convenient centre, the Home Mission district really comprises the whole coastal and inland district from Awakino to Whangamomona, and includes all the blocks of North Taranaki. There are only two missionaries in the district —Rev. Mr. Partridge, at Whangamomona, and Mr. H. G. Sell at Uruti-Awakino end. A tremendous amount of country has been opened up in the last decade, settlement has gone on apace, and two missionaries are quite unable to keep pace with the work. It is the settlers in the back country who are at the back of this movement for more mis ionlfries. They are anxious for both their own and their children’s sakes to have some of the amenities of civilisation, and to the real back blocks a Home missionary in a time of stress, or in a time of joy, is a very welcome and sometimes greatly needed guest. Donations for bazaar, Christmas tree, and bran tubs will be gladly received by the various presidents of committees. Mrs. H. Larsen, “Woodlands,” Pehu, is the organising secretary. Visitors will bo well catered for in the tea line, as a splendid committee under the capable, leadership of Mrs. Davies, of Uruti. has charge of the afternoon tea, and strawberries and eream and daintv home made cakes and sandwiches will, no doubt, be doije full justice- to. The ladies of Uruti and surrounding district are urgently reminded that it is their privilege to provide for the produce stall and afternoon tea (home made bread is one of the items most wanted), so keep up the well-earned reputation of the district for good cooks and unbounded hospitality. A full list of the various stall holers will be published later.