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Anglican Parish of Caversham Saint Peter, THE ROCK Dunedin, New Zealand July 2014—Trinity Vicar General New life for old vestments Saint Peter’s By David Hoskins guest uring the Father Mark interregnum a call wearing one Parish Contacts: was received by of the set D churches (pictured). It VICAR: throughout the diocese for any is wonderful Father Hugh Bowron, spare or old vestments, stoles to think The Vicarage, and linen for use in churches in that 57 Baker St., Vanuatu. At the time we were Caversham, having a ‘clear out’ of some old Dunedin, vestments which were no longer New Zealand 9012. used and sent a large package Telephone: (03) 455 3961 with our best wishes and Email: prayers for the church in the [email protected] Pacific. Little has been heard since, which isn’t surprising as CHURCH WARDENS: The Reverend Eric Kyte the chasubles ended up on Vicar’s Warden: (pictured above), Vicar of St Pentecost Island in a Tubby Hopkins Johns, Roslyn, and Vicar community called Loitong in Telephone: (03) 454-2399 the North of the island. General of the diocese of Email: VicarsWarden Communication is largely @stpeterscaversham.org.nz Dunedin was our guest through the Anglican Church preacher on 29 June—the and that is sporadic. aging vestments from the very People’s Warden: celebration of our Patronal back of the cupboard are now Festival. A letter has been received from Kate Paterson part of the worship in an isolated Telephone: (03) 455-5384 Father Mark Ligo of St Peter’s part of Tikanga Email: PeoplesWarden His sermon talked of the life Pasifika. Father @stpeterscaversham.org.nz and character of St Peter and Mark assures us of the very personal nature of his prayers and VESTRY SECRETARY: of Peter’s connection with hopes we, here at Ian Condie Christ. Caversham, will Telephone: (03) 454-4316 pray for the Email: Vestry There are lessons there for Anglican ministry @stpeterscaversham.org.nz the modern Church. in North “We live in dangerous Pentecost. DIRECTOR OF MUSIC times”, said Mr Kyte, “Those Pentecost Island AND PARISH CENTRE MANAGER: ‘Advanced’ thinkers amongst is famed for the David Hoskins the flock who seek often men who dive off Telephone: (03) 455-7537 with good intent to tall structures Email: ParishCentre disconnect the person of “Pentecost Island is famed for men during @stpeterscaversham.org.nz Jesus of Nazareth from ‘that who dive off tall structures…”. celebrations. The spiritual force which we have link with St FINANCE: been taught to call God’; in Peter’s, Loitong Danielle Harrison so doing, deny our true Anglican Church in Loitong will not be lost and we will send Telephone: (03) 455-0759 humanity, which can Only be thanking us for the gift of a letter including information Email: Finance @stpeterscaversham.org.nz known in Jesus Christ.”. vestments and a photograph about our parish in the near accompanying the letter shows future. www.stpeterscaversham.org.nz Page 2 July 2014—Trinity The Rock The Remarkable Life of Father Edward Evans, th 9 Vicar of Saint Peter's Caversham Father Hugh Bowron By The Vicar Continuing his explorations in The Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican Clergy in the South Pacific, the present Vicar of dward Evans was Caversham finds one of his predecessors. parish in its own right in born in 1881, and 1917. By then Evans was trained for the Anglican ministry at Then in 1910 he joined the Mission of Hope, a long gone, departing for America in Lincoln Theological College from team of 16 missioners sent to revitalise the September 1914. His entry documents to that E1902 to 1904. He was ordained into the Anglican Church in New Zealand. The country described him as being of medium diocese of Norwich, and served his Anglican Church in these islands experienced height and build, with grey eyes and dark hair. apprenticeship, first as Curate of St Margaret, its best boom time in the late 19th century, There he became the curate in charge of St Lowestoft from 1904 to 1907, and then in the with the highest percentage of the nation in its Luke's, Baltimore, a large Anglo-Catholic diocese of Durham as Curate of St John the pews at any time before or since, but as the parish with 1200 parishioners. They must Baptist, Newcastle on Tyne from 1907 to Edwardian age wore on it perceived itself to have liked him for he was soon appointed the 1909. In 1909 he travelled on leave to be slipping in Church attendance and called Rector. Then occurred the most remarkable Baltimore, Maryland on the eastern seaboard on the mother church to help. The Mission of event of his life. He married Helen Fiske in of the United States, a place which as we Hope, soon to be renamed the Mission of 1917, at the great Anglo-Catholic shrine of St shall see was to have a major influence on his Help, was the response. The 16 missioners Mary the Virgin, West 46th Street, New York. life. had a variety of skills, a reflection of the fact Her élite status is shown by the fact that her that the Edwardian Church had a sense of On his return to Britain he was briefly Curate cousin Charles Fiske, Coadjutor Bishop of what was required in order to carry out parish of St Luke, Cambridge in the diocese of Ely. Central New York, married them and that the missions, and of its Solemn Nuptial Mass carry over vitality from was celebrated by Letters the Victorian Church, Reginald Heber Weller, with its recovered The Rock welcomes letters to the Editor. Letters should the Bishop of Fond Du sense of confidence January 10, 1917 be no more than 150 words in length and are subject to Lac, Wisconsin and purpose, received selection and, if selected, to editing for length and house (traditionally one of the in part from the Oxford style. Letters may be : Anglo-Catholic dioceses movement. The of the Episcopal Church), Posted to : The Editor of The Rock, missioners included assisted by the Vicar of c/- The Vicarage, 57 Baker Street, Fathers Fitzgerald and Caversham, St Mary's. The wedding Rees of the Dunedin, N.Z. 9012 guests included the Community of the Governor General of Emailed to: Resurrection, Mirfield, Canada, the Marquis and and they aimed if [email protected] Marchioness of possible to carry out a Aberdeen, and another mission in every Episcopal Bishop. Anglican parish in Ask The Vicar New Zealand. They Helen was the eldest For answers to questions doctrinal, spiritual and liturgical. arrived in Wellington daughter of Haley Fiske, Write to: Ask The Vicar, on the Turakina on a millionaire whose 57 Baker Street, the 25th of August wealth flowed from the Caversham, 1910, and would Headlines from The New York fact that he was Dunedin, N.Z. 9012 remain here until early Times’ report of the marriage of the President of the Or email: 1911. 9th Vicar of Caversham. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. He [email protected] We must suppose that COPYRIGHT © THE NEW YORK TIMES was a trustee of Rutgers Father Edward Evans University, a generous benefactor of St had visited Dunedin, for at the end of March Mary's, having paid for their Lady Chapel, and 1911 he became the Vicar of Saint Peter’s, Ask The Vestry also gave generous endowments to the Caversham. He must have been a man of Questions about the secular life and fabric of the parish diocese of Newark, New Jersey, of which the remarkable energy for he immediately threw may be: notorious John Spong would later be Bishop himself into the task of missionising St Kilda, towards the end of the 20th century. He also Posted to : Ask The Vestry, which he felt required a much stronger sense gave generous financial support to St Mark, c/- The Vicarage, 57 Baker Street, of Anglican presence. He was responsible for Caversham, Mendham, where he was a Churchwarden. the building and opening of Holy Cross, St Dunedin, N.Z. 9012 The great golden doors of the cathedral of St Kilda, which at first was a Chapel of ease, a John the Divine, New York are a memorial to Emailed to: quaint Victorian term for a mission church, of (Continued on page 3) Saint Peter’s, Caversham, until it became a [email protected] Saint Peter’s Caversham The Rock July 2014—Trinity Page 3 mastheads, the stem jack and ensign bent Flags on and ready to hoist in good time. At eight o’clock, the junior deck officer would By Ian Condie blow a whistle, the apprentice on the forecastle head would make (strike) eight n the latter half of last bells and simultaneously the courtesy century New Zealand ports were usually filled with ships of ensign and house flag were broken out at the Conference Lines - Blue Star, Port Line, N.Z. Shipping the mastheads and the ensign hoisted on Co. and Shaw Savill. They ran regularly between the ensign staff at the stern. With BritainI and N.Z. and liked to maintain old fashioned three or four ships lying next to standards based loosely on the Royal Navy. The each other, it could be ceremony and protocol of flags was one. quite effective. In port, flags were hoisted and/or broken out On one never-to-be-sufficiently-regretted at 8 am and lowered at 5 pm. Four flags occasion, there were only three apprentices so were involved which was handy as most a very new Deck Boy was pressed into ships then had service.