Newspaper Clipping - 31st August 1931 

AN APPEAL BY NOTTS. CURATE

"PARISHIONERS WITH BANDAGES OVER EYES"

"GIVE NEXT MAN A DOG'S CHANCE"

"I am not sorry to go.  Believe me - I am glad to go. There are too many people in this parish with bandages over their eyes.  Another man will follow me.  Give him a chance - give him a dog's chance"

Preaching a farewell sermon at St. Mary's Church, Westwood, last evening, the Rev. G. Gilleland, M.A., made the above dramatic appeal to his late parishioners.  He went on to say that his two years in the parish had not been happy ones.  "I was told in this church in which I now stand that when I left the church I would be full." he said, and added that he hoped this prophecy would be fulfilled, that when he had gone all the benches would be filled, and appealed to his congregation and to all absent church-goers to forget trivial things and to rally round his successor. 

The Rev. Gilleland has been curate of Westwood St. Mary's Church for two years. Formerly he held the curacy of Woodstock, in Cornwall, and on leaving Westwood will take an appointment as vicar of New Buckenham, Norwich.

The above clipping has been submitted by Mr A Tansey of Doncaster.