CHURCH MEETINGS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 802, 27 April 1910, Page 3

CHURCH MEETINGS.

ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH BROOKLYN. The £rst annual meeting of parishioners of St. Matthew's Church, Brooklyn, was held last evening, the vicar, Rev. R. H. Hobday, presiding. The vicar in hie report stated during the year a deepening and quickening ot the spiritual lite in the parish had been; shown by an. increased number of communicants, by the formation of a branch of the Church of England Men's ' Society, Girls' Friendly Society, Missionary Guild, Sowers' Band, and Band of Hope, by the large increase in the number of teachers and scholars at the Sunday School, and by the largo number of candidates offering for confirmation. Tho vicar hoticd fiuoii to see a communicants' guild and an evening.class for Bible study formed. ~ The balance-sheet showed receipts amounting to £233 19s. 9d., and an expenditure of .£259 ss. 5d., leaving a bank balance of 14s. 4d., against which were liabilities totalling vCI3 Cs. Bd. During' the year donations to the stipend fund amounting to .£3O 11s.' had boon received. Tho church building fund amounted to JE3I. Os. 9d., and the vicarage t building. account to .£95 Bs. 3d. Miss Bates's concert in-aid of the latter fund had. produced ill Gs. Gd., and the 1 sale of work i!781'13. 7d, . • On the motion of Mr; Probyn, seconded by Mr. Hopkinson,'. the , report and bal-ance-sheet wero adopted. ; . . : The annual report .of tho Sunday School showed that 177 children were on the books, and there was an average attendance of \U. During the year ail excurI tiiou to VUmmertoD wan held. Tao vicai

said that considering the disadvantages under which the school had laboured tne result was exceedingly satisfactory. ' • Thti election of officers resulted as follows :—Vicar's churchwarden, Mr. W. Tebbs; people's churchwarden, Mr. W. J. Westwood; vestry, Messrs. Bell, Hop-. Mnson, H. Jones, W. Nash, W. H. Pro-, byn, Simkis, and Butcher; auditor, Mr. W.'Copeland. . .... , In order to obviate uncertainty as to the receipts as far as possible, it was decided on the: motion oi Mr. Nash to circularise parishioners asking them what amounts they would be willing to undertake to contribute. ' ; PAEISH OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S, ~.:.;;■ PKTONE. ; ■■• ; ; , Tle'Eevi'Xlf.E'usseli'presided over an exceptionally large gathering of parishioners of St. Augustine's, Petone,' and';read a detailed report of the year's work. Mi. F. A. Mason (churchwarden) • presented the vestry's report and balance-sheet. The total receipts from all sources amounted to .£949, apart' from balances brought forward; the expenditure totalled .£IOO6, and. included the reduction of the church debfby £100 and the cost of repainting tho. church., The amount ot £81 'was earned forward ' to , the credit of the current year. The offertories amounted to .£348, a decrease of nearly ■£20 ■■ while' the subscriptions totalled £176,; an' increase of ■ £68; ;£B9 had been contributed to home and foreign .missions and to the relief of.sick and needy, parisu-, ioners. There were 6«. children with 38' teachers on the Sunday School and Bible Class rolls; communicants numbered 3-JO, baptisms % confirmees ; 26, marriages 19, burials 24. The appointment of the Rev. A. H. Heron as assistant curate was appreciatively referred to and :thii meeting unanimously voted nis stipend for another year.: The work of the ve3trv, lay readers, chou, BUtday; School sfeff, G:E.M.S., Ladies' GuM, GRS., Bible Glasses, Young Men's Club, Missionary Union, oolloctoie. for cnnioi frinds,• distributors of. "Church Chronicle and many • other voluntary* works were 'appreciatively spoken; of.; Mr. C. Rogers was appointed vicars .churchwarden; Mr. 1 , . A. Mason, parishioners ohurcnf/arden (re-elected); ' Messrs. H. G. Brooks, W. G. Evans, W. loster, W. Hill, I).' Kelr, J.' Lee, aid J. H. Sherwm, vestrymen; and'Mr.'C. H. Andrews,, auditor. The vestry was asked to take into immediate consideration the desirability of enlarging the young men's room, and a committee was appointed to report to the vestry on the cost of erecting a churchrbom at Korokoro, whore the work has been most encouraging of late Beiresliroents were provided by tbe ladies, who' w.ere accorded a hearty, yoto oi thanks, as wore also the retiring ofheers, Messrs. Castle and Wilson.' ; .