RICCARTON HOUSE FOR CHURCH

Press, Volume C, Issue 29518, 20 May 1961, Page 9

RICCARTON HOUSE FOR CHURCH

Plans Of Methodist Circuit

To provide additional classrooms for their overcrowded Sunday school, the trustees of the Riccarton Circuit of the Methodist Church are seeking to use an old house in Brake street, Upper Riccarton. In a request to the Waimairi County Council to use the building and section for general church purposes, the trustees said such use would be temporary, possibly for seven months. The trustees said that, as a long-term project, it was Intended to build a parsonage for an additional minister who would be appointed towards the end of this year. The trustees also had an option on an adjoining property in Brake street, which gave a satisfactory area of land to prepare an attractive block of church buildings. The council granted the application as conditional use in a Commercial C zone.

Tours For Children.— Educational tours for parties of school children from' the Auckland district to Wellington will be arranged by the Railways Department this winter. To take advantage of available accommodation dur. ing a slack period of the year, the department will offer all-inclusive tours leav. ing the Auckland and South Auckland areas each Tuesday and Wednesday during June, July and August. Travel to and from Wellington will be by sleeping car, and the size of each party will be limited to 32, including one or two escorting teachers. The children will have 12 hours in the capital. —(P.A.)