WAITARA.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 March 1922, Page 7

WAITARA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) A meeting was held in the Parish Hall. Waitara, on Wednesday evening, in aid of the Auckland Diocesan Central Fund. The vicar presided and introduced Mr. C. A. Webb, who, as organising secretary, explained the objects of the fund, viz., the payment of adequate stipends to the clergy m all the parishes of the diocese; to obtain sufficient funds to enable urgent church work and expansion to be undertaken the moment the opportunity offers, and to provide for the education and training of capable and energetic young men for the sacred ministry. A resolution was carried unanimously requesting the vicar to call another meeting at an early date, to arrange for an organised canvass on behalf of the fund, the sum being to obtain as many annual subscribers to the. fund of 5s and upwards, payable half yearly. The chairman expressed his thanks to Mr. Webb for his advocacy of a good cause and the meeting closed with the benediction.

Bishop John Manwaring Steward, who .vill visit Waitara on Monday next, ; n the interests of the Melanesian Mission, was educated at Magdaleno College. Oxford, where he took his B.A.® in 1896, vnd at Fly Theological College. After his ordination by the Bishop of St. Albans he served as assistant curate of Watford and then (in 1902) joined the Melanesian Mission" in the South Seas. Tn 1919 his fellow missionaries elected him to be the fifth Bishop of the diocese, and he was consecrated as such on St. Matthew's Day the same year He will tell of his work in the islands at a missionary service in St. John’s Church, Waitara. on Monday evening, at < .30.