SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 476, 7 April 1909, Page 9

SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY.

*-^— 'DONALD MXEAN STREET CHURCH. The most encouraging sign of progress of the Donald M'Lean Street Primitive Methodist Sunday School, which has just concluded its twenty-ninth year, is the marked increase of new scholars on the roll. The newcomers number 77, states the annual report, and, after de> ducting '48 scholars who have removed from the district, there is still a substantial gain of 29. A long-desired improvement has been made by the provision of temporary classrooms, and it is hoped, at no distant date, to build permanent classrooms between the church and Sunday School. The . new gymnasium has proved very satisfactory, the heavy expenditure being more than met before the close of the season. The committee hope at the close of the incoming year to present to the trust fund a very handsome sum.. The collections for foreign missions totalled £2 7s. 3d., and for orphanage needs, £1 11s. 6d. The librarv contains 350 volumes, and the Sunday collections ™ V ?/ D ? l i ea f d i rom £6 Os - iA - losl !« to .£9 lGs. 4d. for the year just ended. Tho total number of scholars is 154, with, an average attendance of 94, and the teaching staff numThe annual report, which set forth these particulars, refers also to tho departure of the Rev. J Cocker and Mrs. Cocker, and welcomes their successors, the Eev. C A Sinm and. Mrs. Sims. Tho report was read 'at to anniversary meeting, held Inst evening, at which there was a large attendance, Mr. E C ieltham, superintendent of the Sunday School' being in the chair. Special hymns /ere sung gTven 8 - scllolars ' nn(l recitations and songs were n' £ ty . f ° llowin g are the school officials:-Mr E >* : l'eltnam, superintendent; Mr. A Mil'w' vice-superintendent; Mr. C. Ridding,-hon sec" retary; Mr. E. Oxley, Emburv gS. o,ganist! M^S G - Luke > U or :

Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell is about AmeHcf 31 ' 0 aa eXtMsive tour ™ S wi ic ? S t0 ■ oWners and twiners, and also to Messrs. T, Kennedy Macdonald, Ltd insert particulars in ,our auction column, of n tl » of superior household furnishings Chseterfplll lounge, oak suite, etc, six rolls now ll no l eu n' *"■*»» laeerille, are extended till Thursday! April 8 Attention is drawn to Messrs. Gualter Dvkes and Company's sale to bo held at their rooms' Feathers on and Brandon Streets to day at MO p.m. Tho. goods are of eho highest nimliv and comprise.field and opera gi?" I morocco leather arm chnir over 801 lots o books, including novels and educational work! and several boxes of stereoscopic views. Messrs. Levien, Rhnllcrnss, and Co. advertiso a large taster sale of over .£2OOO worth of jewel ery, commencing at their rooms, Willi, Htrcot, at 2.80 p.m. to-dny The goods compi'iso diamond jowellery, gold, and silver watcher bvthn best, known makers, greenstone, gold-mounted >rnamonts, gold rings, marble, and other clocks cutlery, silverware, dcotio-platcd ware, ladies' silver-mounted enther goods, and a largo range or silk goods, shawls, and handkerchiefs TKo snle will be continued on Thursday and Saturday, and the goods will bo sold without reserve Messrs. A. h. Wilson and Co. will conduct a' sale at Mr. h. Benjamin's residence, Te Papa to-morrow ot 1 o c ock, of high-clnss furniture! almost now, and all for .unresorvod sale owlns to the owner leaving tho city. Special mention is made of a large quantity of blankets, bedding, and bed linen. They also ndvci-tiso a clearing sale of Mr. .las. Prater's furniture, at his shop, No, 28. Vivian Street, on Thursday April 15, commencing at 1 o'clock. Tho furniture is for unreserved sale, owing to Mr. Fruter lf.avins for Australia,