Annual Retreat.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1941, Page 4

Annual Retreat.

The annual eight clays' retreat of the Sisters of St. Bride's will commence tonight at St. Bride’s Convent, Masterton. Nuns from Pahiatua, Carterton and Foxton convents are at present in Masterton to make the retreat which will be conducted by a Franciscan Father from Auckland. E.P.S. Volunteer Fire Corps. Members of the E.P.S. Volunteer Fire Corps are to commence receiving instruction in fire-fighting at the Central Fire Station on Tuesday night, May 20. Thereafter, training instruction will be given by the kind permission of Mr P. F. Fagan, at the garage of Fagan Motors Ltd., every Tuesday night. Horticultural Week. It has been decided that the National Horticultural Week, 1942, shall be held in Hawke's Bay and it was recently also resolved “That the deliberations at the Conferences should be along national lines and this it be a recommendation to the local committee to feature exhibits of national importance.” It was also considered that the necessity and value of food production should be stressed. Druids' Dance. A large and happy crowd filled the Orange Hall on Saturday evening at the dance held under the auspices of the local Druids’ Lodge for the benefit of overseas members. Excellent music was supplied by Messrs J. West and A. Barnes, while extras were played by Messrs Hood and Corlett. The winners of the Monte Carlo were Miss Alison Mills and Mr T. Corlett. The dance was capably controlled by Mr W. R. Pawson. Parade at Auckland. Girls attired in the colourful costumes of Yugoslavia provided festive scenes in the main Auckland streets on Saturday collecting tor the Fighting Forces Fund as a patriotic gesture made by the Yugoslav community when they found they were unable to forward assistance to the people oi their own stricken country. A generous response was made by citizens, who thronged the streets in large numbers in anticipation of a parade of 12.000 members of the Home Defence services and Emergency Precautions organisation. The parade assembled at the Domain and left at 2 o'clock, proceeding six abreast via Grafton Bridge. Karangahape Road, and Queen Street, past the Town Hall, where the Gov-ernor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, took the salute. The parade was played from point to point by 17 stationary bands. A feature was the first public appearance in Auckland of the Scottish unit, in Black Watch kills. Methodist Church Centenary. The centenary of the founding of the Wellington central circuit oi the Methodist Church of New Zealand will be celebrated on Sunday. May 25. and during the week following. The church hopes that all those now living who have been associated with the circuit during the past century, either directlv or indirectly, will attend. "It is from the Wellington central circuit that all the other circuits in the Wellington area have sprung, and all Methodist churches in the district are thus directly associated with the centenary commemoration of what was actually the beginning of organised Methodism in this part of the Dominion." say the superintendent minister, the Rev P. Paris, and the circuit stewards. Messrs B. O. Stokes and T. M. Pacey, in a circular letter. "We therefore trust that all Methodists will join in our public thanksgiving to God Colour church's 100 years of life and , work in Wellington and in honouring] those early pioneers to whom our j church owes so much" 1