VESTRY MEETING, ST. PETERS, AKAROA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 197, 7 June 1878, Page 2

VESTRY MEETING, ST. PETERS, AKAROA.

TdeßUay, June 4/

Present—Ber. P." C. 'Anderson ' (Chair' man), Messrs Westenra, M'Gregor, Wag' staff, and Pfenning. The following letter from the Hon.. Secretary of the Standing Committee waa 1 read:— . ■:.... 'A

" Christ's College Library, . "Christchurch..May2B, 1878. " Gentleman;—l have been- directed by tbe Standing Committee to inform you' that it is proposed to divide the pariah of Akaroa by separating from it a district commencing from Robinson's Bay *nd • extending to Wainui] both ihcludeci, \to form a new Parochial District.. -Th© Standing Committee wish to know whether ' you have any objectiohstolsuch seVerajticV. If no objections on the part pt tlie JJictfm-" bent and Vestry shall Teach lne/wjthin twenty-eight days from the day on which * this notice is fprwarded, your assent to the proposed separation of the porfion of the parish may be assumed by the Standing Committee. You will find that the Synod resolution'on Parohiar Districts provides that no such severance shall be 1 recommended to the Synod so long as. any debt for tho erection or enlargment of the • church or parsonage shall remain unpaid without the consent in writing pt ; person or persons responsible "fo? tho payment of such debt, or until an arrangement for the. .liquidation thereof" has been submitted to the 1 - Standing- Cora-'' mittee, sufiicieut in its opinion to justify such severance without tho "consent of thd person or persons responsible for Buch debt,

"I am, yours faithfully, G, Cotteuill, Diocesan Secretary.' "For the Acting Incumbent arid chuce_ officers of Akaroa."

Aftef considerable dißCUseion' it7wa9 proposed by Mr Henning, and seconded by Mr Westenra, and carried—" That this Vestry, having duly considered' the 1 of the Hon. Secretary of the Standing Committee, of tbe 28th May, rela'tirig to '■ the severance of the district of Akaroftinto two parishes, from Robinson's Bayfok lowing the boundary of the present pariah to Wainui and Island Bay, agree in accordance with clause 3, page 47, of Diocesan Synod report, 1877, to offer no> objection to the proposed "severance.. There being no claim for the erection or enlargement of the church or parsonage eh&rger ' able against the residents .of the proposed new parish." * "■"'. 'j;... " ■'■ During the discußsioh.it wss out that by the.se i vmnceof the' ifoe present vbstry livbuld lyrve to providenearly £100 per antfum'more than they donow, as in addition, to, the.loss of the contributions from the part of the parish, proposed to. be thoy would, disc j ■loose the grant oi £24.that they now" received from the Church Work Extension Committee. But it was hoped that as the "Clergyman's whole time would be engaged, within the town, or nearly so," that -'»•• greater interest in church matters would be developed. In accordance with, a request contained, in a. circular from the Chairman of th© Clergy Widows and Orphans Fund, it was resolved to set apart one Sunday's offertory in the year as a contribution toward the fund.

The Churchwardens reported that they had received £40 from the County ConncS for the Cemetery Fund, and that Mr Fenton had been instructed to survey the; boundaries of the Cemetery, and to put in the pegs, with a view to having it properly fenced. They also desired to call the attention of parkhoners who have not .paid their subscriptions to the Parochial Fund that the present month terminates this quarter,, and to request that amounts due be at, once paid.