Bullock, William

The Rev. William Bullock tendered his resignation at a special vestry meeting on 22 April 1930, to take up an appointment as Vicar of St Peter's, Wellington, the Wairarapa Age reported.

ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH.

REV. W. BULLOCK APPOINTED TO NEW CHARGE.

VICAR OF ST. PETER'S, WELLINGTON.

The Rev. W. Bullock, Vicar of St. Matthew's, has been appointed Vicar of St. Peter's, Wellington, in succession to Canon H. Watson, who is resigning as from June next on account of ill-health. Mr. Bullock's resignation of his present charge was tendered at a special meeting of the St. Matthew's Vestry last evening and was accepted with general and sincere regret. The resignation takes effect later in the year.

Mr. Bullock has been Vicar of St. Matthew's for the last eight years and in that period has made for himself a noteworthy reputation as an able, enterprising and untiring minister of a parish with a total area of something like five hundred square miles. 

During Mr. Bullock's term, also, important building additions have been made to St. Matthew's Church and these were preceded by the erection of the Sunday School building known as the Parish Hall. 

Mr. Bullock has played an active and helpful part also in promoting the prosperous expansion of the St. Matthew's Collegiate School for Girls. 

Educated at the University of London, King's College, Mr. Bullock took his Diploma in Theology with Honours. He was ordained in the Rochester Diocese and his first curacy was at All Saints, Chatham. Here he spent two or three years in helping to build up a new parish. From Chatham, he went to Bromley, in Kent and was a curate in that parish until, at the first available opportunity, he went to France as chaplain to the Imperial Forces in 1916. 

Mr. Bullock received his first appointment as chaplain from the present Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Lang. 

Knowing that he had been selected to come to New Zealand, Mr. Bullock transferred to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in 1918 and remained with the New Zealanders as chaplain until he was demobolised in this country in 1919. For the next two years and a half, Mr. Bullock was actively engaged as Organising Secretary to the Church of England Men's Society. 

In 1922, he was appointed Vicar of St. Matthew's. The St. Matthew's Parish is of great extent and its incumbent is called upon to do a great deal of travelling--twelve miles out on the Tinui Road, thirty miles on the Brancepeth and Ngahape roads and in other directions to Mount Bruce, Bideford and Kopuaranga. The only near boundary is the Waingawa, on the south. The western boundary of the Parish is the crest of the Tararuas, but there is not yet any call for Sunday services in the ranges.

Wairarapa Age, 23 April 1930, page 5