Annual Thanksgiving Proposed.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1940, Page 4

Annual Thanksgiving Proposed.

The suggestion that there might be established an annual Sunday of thanksgiving for national mercies was made by Archbishop Averill when preaching at the Centennial thanksgiving service at St Mary's Cathedral, Auckland. "The ideals and motives behind the services of this thanksgiving Sunday." he said, "might well be perpetuated in an annual thanksgiving Sunday and an annual expression of our united thanksgiving for the continued guidance and blessing of Almighty God." Message in Bottle.

When playing on the Waikanae Beach the other day, a nine-year-old boy, whose parents are spending a holiday al the motor camp there, discovered a bottle bearing a message thrown from the liner Monterey oil Sydney almost II months ago. The message contained in the bottle indicated that information of the final resting-place would be welcomed by the United States Hydrographic Office. Washington. The message was written on a form supplied by the United States Naval Department and was sealed in the bottle by Mr 11. R. Johansen. officer c.f the American liner, on February 19. 1939. in latitude klile" 23min south and longitude 157 deg 42min • ’1 he position indicated is about half a day's steam from Svdnev Heads