ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18362, 21 April 1925, Page 12

ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH.

PARISHIONERS' ANNUAL

MEETING.

The annual pariah meeting of St. Saviour's Church, Sydenham, was lield l®it night in tko Parish. Hfcll. Tho iltv. Canon C. G. gutter was in Iho supported by the wardens, Messrs C. Hole and R. Cftllbn, together "with, the members of the vestry. The vicar spoke of tho successful year thfe parish had had, staling that .54- persons had been confirmed, 9 adults had been baptised, and 104 infants; 33 marriages bad bdew solemnised, and lv<s bad officiated 'Wrialft, a great rcchictibn from thejprftvious year, the total vas 91. Hf mentioA* «d bow great a blow to the eetvicfes bad| Ufeen sustained on account of the Health OffioerV lestrictions. ' Thanks wer* accorded to tho church officers and rubbers of various organisations, Buch aft the Mothers' Union, G.F.S.,' ahd Sunday School teachert, Uv readers, organist, «lc. The balance-sheet for the year was adopted. The total receipts amounted to' £1167 17s Gd. Attention was diawn to the iteni of 6s 3d appearing oh the payment side Of the statement of accounts for repairs and pointing. It was explaiiiod that th 6 cburcj. buildings Jiad been som«what neglected for some yfiirs, but whou the work now in band had bedu completed, th© whole of thA buildings would havo been painted and repaired, ' and should require very little atMention for some years. During the year the parish had given tho sum of £3l 6s lid to various missions, an increase of abotot £3O ovet the previous yfcar. TbS balanceeheet showed a deficit of £44 0s <d, which was £lB lower tban last year. The whole 6l this deficit was for money owing to various funds in the parish, and: consequently the parish cbuld congratulate itself on an excellent year.The election of officers resulted £8 follows: —Yicar'fl warden, Mr Chas. Hole; people's warden. Dr. D. E. Currie; vestry, Meesra R. F. Gallon, F. Pearco, G. C. Smith, G. PieSJe, F. D. Wilson, ,H. W. Logan. H. Lawrence, AY. W. Nichols.

A. novel and somewhat startling experience befell one of the_ Carterton bowlers who went to the Nelson tourney, states the Carterton paper. On the Saturday night he dropped his bowling hat on to the washstand m his bedroom. On Sunday the party went for a motor drive. On returning to his room "in the dusk of the twilight," he went to get a drink of water from tho water-bottle on the washstand. Taking hold of the glass, it broke in his hand, and the fragments fell upon hii hat. He took hold of that, and to hi 3 astonishment grasped only a handful of ashes. Investigation followedj and it was seen that the hat had been near the glass water-bottle, which had evidently huppened, at some time of tho day, to be in a direct lino with the sun's rays, and, acting as a magnifving-glass, had set fire to the hat. Tho heat frolrt the burning hat had shattered the tumbler, and also burned through the cloth covering the washstand, and charred the wood, but fortunately did not meet with any easily inflammable material, and died out without bursting into flame.

The recent storm was not without its humorous incidents (writes dur Akaroa correspondent) at "rounding-up" time. For instance, on one dairy farm on Thursday morning one cow was missing from the herd. "Carried, away by tlio flooded creek!" was the conclusion reached by the menFolk after a hurried look around had failed to reveal her, and the farmer mentally debited another item against the _ hand of Fate. Later on in the morning, however, the missing one was found, alive, comparatively dry and snug and complacently chewing her cu<i in the roomy iowlhcmse.