in the parish. In 1918 Albert Walker died, Superintendent of St. Mark’s Sunday School for many years.

Mr. Neish left the parish in 1922 and it was more than a year before a successor was appointed. This was the Reverend George T. Spriggs who was transferred from Alberton. The parish needed vigorous work, and he supplied it. A card register of families was compiled. The rectory was provided with a new range and a pipe- less furnace. All the churches were kept in repair. The W.A. and Sunday Schools were well managed, a Junior W.A. and a small Sunday School being organized at Sea View. Mrs. Henry Mill super- intended the Little Helpers at Kensington. The graveyard at St. Stephen’s was fenced in 1923 and enlarged eight years later. The Right Reverend John Hackenley, Bishop Coadjutor, consecrated the addition. In 1929 reference was made to the death of William J. Profitt, Sunday School Superintendent, churchwarden, and life— long member of St. Stephen’s; and to the death of John Hacker Paynter, a regular communicant first of St. Stephen’s, then of St. Mark’s, and a member of the choir. About the same time the deaths of William Thompson, churchwarden of St. Mark’s, of Gladys Irene Evans, choir member, and John Adam Millman, lay delegate, both of St. Stephen’s, were noted with regret. In 1929 the semi-annual meeting of the Woman’s Auxiliary for P.E.I. was held in Kensington, and in the same year representatives of the Church Army held short mission services in each part of the parish. Church work in New London was well maintained in the incumbency of Mr. Spriggs, whose interest in community and fraternal affairs was also large. He and his family removed to Sydney Mines, following the steps of William Meek, in the early winter of 1933.

After the passing of seven months the vacancy was filled by the Reverend Benjamin F ream who was inducted by Bishop Hack~ enley on October 7, 1934. Mr. Fream’s ministry was almost the same length as that of his predecessor. Again the churches were kept in repair; again the W.A. came in for its meed of praise from the incumbent. Mrs. Blakeney worked with Juniors at Sea View. Two senior branches were in operation, and a GA. was begun at French River with Mrs. Bruce Adams in charge. A Chancel Guild was organized in 1939 at St. Mark’s. The A.Y.P.A. was active in practical ways. Sunday Schools maintained their place, Mr. James Murphy conducting a class at Sea View, and Miss Olive Thompson and Mrs. S. B. Moase taking the leadership at St. Mark’s. Regular classes were presented for confirmation to the Bishop during all the incumbencies of the twentieth century. Death took its toll of workers, among whom were numbered James B. Profitt, James H. Murphy, Mrs. H. Harding.

Mr. Fream left after eight years to go to Roundhill, N .S., and was succeeded in June 1942, by the Reverend Harry F. Newman, former curate of St. Paul’s, Halifax. He brought a bride to the rectory, carried on the activities of the parish, and after two years left on July 9, 1944, to take up missionary work in India under the M.S.C.C.

The Reverend Douglas E. Noel was appointed rector on Oc-