RELIGIOUS SURVEY

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31108, 11 July 1966, Page 17

RELIGIOUS SURVEY

Teams Visit 8000 Homes

About 300 volunteers from 13 different churches visited nearly 8000 homes in Riccarton on Saturday when conducting a religious' survey in the area. The survey, which was described yesterday by the minister of St. Ninian’s Presbyterian Church (the Rev. R. J. Griffith) as having produced much valuable information, was aimed at finding the religious affiliations lof local residents. The visitors had been well [received at nearly all the homes they visited, Mr-Grif-fith said. Cards had been filled out for each home, and returned to a sorting team at the survey headquarters. There they had been sorted into denominations, and some information still had to be cdllated.

The visiting teams ended the work about noon, and the sorting of cards was stopped about 2.30 p.m., Mr Griffith said. When all sorting was complete the cards would be passed to the respective churches. Two small areas—one in Avonhead and one in the eastern part of Riccarton —still remained to be surveyed. This would be done this coming Saturday.

The men who made the visits were drawn from Anglican, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian and Methodist congregations in the Riccarton area, and they began the survey about 8.30 a.m.

The survey was conducted under the auspices of the Riccarton Ministers’ Fraternal.