OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1942, Page 2

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

WASTE PAPER COLLECTION (To the Editor) Sir, —May we be granted space to correct a misleading statement reported in the discussion at the recent meeting of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union on the subject of waste paper collection. It was therein stated “that it was very discouraging to those people .who went to great trouble collecting paper to find it was not wanted.”

This is definitely not the case. All paper is wanted except waxed, greasy, soiled, cellophane and carbon paper and the Waste Paper Depot in Church Street is open to receive paper in unlimited quantities. This week two full railway trucks of about 12 tons of pressed paper have been railed to the Whakatane Paper Mills, and more awaits despatch to Wellington for shipment to Australia.

Appeal is made to all householders, both town and country, to save and bring in their surplus paper to the depot. We must rely upon those helping the movement by saving paper to bring it in as it is both uneconomic and impracticable to run a collection service.—Yours, etc., G. T. O’HARA SMITH. Foi’ Masterton Reclamation of Waste Committee. Masterton, September 18.

LOCAL CHURCH HISTORY

(To the Editor) Sir, —In view of the Patronal Festival of St. Matthew’s Church this year being held in the Parish Hall and not in the fine edifice so disastrously destroyed by the recent earthquake, it might be of interest to your many readers to review a few of the more outstanding cardinal events associated with this denomination since the arrival of its pioneer minister (the Rev. William Ronaldson) in 1856. Mr Ronaldson was without any consecrated place of worship worth mentioning right up to and including the time of his departure in the year 1868. It was therefore a memorable occasion when, on May 2, 1878, Bishop Hadfield visited our township to consecrate the first real St. Matthew’s Church built on its original site. The second St. Matthew’s (since entirely demolished) was consecrated by Bishop Sprott on St. Matthew’s Day, 1913. It accommodated, twice as many worshippers as the preceding church building. The arrival of the Rev Mr Desbois in 1864 was the first attempt to centralise as near Masterton as possible any Anglican clergyman, but as Mr Desbois only possessed deacon’s ord-. ers, Mr Ronaldson had still to visit the district on many important occasions. The Rev Mr Knell was later instrumental in seeing the building of the first St. Matthew’s and three other Anglican churches—-in Carterton. Greytown and Featherston—and the parochial duties of the clergy more closely prescribed. The advent of the Revs Teakle and Paige set the permanent seal on real, independent local parish activities when the Tinui parochial district area was proclaimed. Thus there cannot fail to emerge from its present difficulty, with greater zeal than ever, a church whose pioneer history is so filled with the courage which knows no defeat of a lasting kind in ecclesiastical matters such as these—l am, etc.,

, , N.J.B. Masterton, September 18, 1942.