Anglicans Subscribe Record Sum For Missions

Chronicle (Levin), 13 July 1949, Page 4

Anglicans Subscribe Record Sum For Missions

WELLINGTON, July 13. New Zealand Anglicans, for the year ended June 30, subscribed £31,134 for missions, the highest amount on record. Last year's total was £28,373. The secretary of the New Zealand Anglican Board of Missions, Rev. W. S. Southward, said today that all of the seven dioceses had exceeded the quotas alloeated to them to raise. The amount budgeted for was £27,000 an-d this had been exceeded by £4134. The total subscribed was also £2761 more than was given last year. Two years ago the board had embarked upon a plan to raise the total for missions from £25,000 to £30,000 in five years by stepping up the quot-a over the seven dioceses by £1000 yearly, continued Mf. Southward. Actually the target had been achieved in two years. The totals subscribed by the various dioceses, with the figures for last year given in. parentheses are: Auckland, - £5829 (£5356); Christchurch, £S913 (£6522); Dunedin, £3193 (£2930); Nelson, £2730 (£2580) ; Waiapu, £3874 (£3054) ; Waikato, £2027 (£1826) ; Wellington £6564 (£6103); and extra 'diocesan! £4 (£2). In addition to the amount of £31,134 received for the year, approximately £1500 was also given by church people to the board for purposes. outside the missions' target. The annual meeting of the board of missions will be held in Wellington on August 17.