PALMEUSTON.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 492, 27 April 1909, Page 3

PALMEUSTON.

At All Saints' Church on Sunday the annual reports and statements of accounts .for tho iiarish of Palmerston North.for. tho year ending March 31 wore distributed to tlio parishioners.' They show a flourishing state of affairs in all departments of religious and.social activity. Sunday services aro held in twelve different places, while there., are ten Sunday schools with a total .of 763, scholars and 55 teachers. • Mention is made of; the inability to get a successor to the Rev. G. W. Davidson, although inquiries had been made, both in New Zealand and lbngland, and there is, .therefore, now only one priest and a deacon in the 1 parish. There aro thirteen lay readers in tho parish, and two moro licenses .aro to be issued shortly, ro- sh magazine has a circulation 'of ? j? ' '.'report congratulates th 6 Terrace End congregation on having extinguished the. balance of tho debt on ?.^P. etors -Church biuldmg. Repairs to tho buildings at All Samts had been put'off owing to the possibility of the hew church being. begun m the near futuro, but tho parishioners are reminded that they should roak© fresh efforts to raise tho .. necessary funds for the new building. A substantial increase • 111 the general "offertories at ; All s * s - pleasure, \bufc. Beat^ holders:had failed to.meet their, obligations, jyitli .the result that' there was a balance of liabilities - over assets. In'tlie vicar's annual report of\ the'working of All Saints' Children s Home, tho' remarkable fact is disclosed that, during,tho year,' no less a,sum than £1350 14s. '4d. was handled for.'the institution. 'Donations to the amount, of £201 7s; Bd. were .'received, whilov annual subscriptions amounted to £31 17s. Cd. . In expenditure,the largest amounts are. for new property,'; .£440;. additions .and alterations to tho building, £469 9s. •: and .maintenanco,.£2B4. The healthy condition of tho finances. is'showri .in, the- fact, that the..bal:ari<S9 of' assets, over .liabilities is put. down at £863 3s. ,4d. Mention is' made' of the high praise given to, the institution Iby. Mrs. Dick, agent of the Infant Lifo Protection Society.. ' Tho ,'Palmerston .branch "of 'tlio //Farmers! Union havo dccidedto •the/Minister ;for' Lauds/ tho ; for Agriculture, -and tlio' Cnief to their annual :lp[ be held on May.. 5.