ST. JAMES'S CHURCH, HUTT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2134, 28 April 1914, Page 5

ST. JAMES'S CHURCH, HUTT.

ANNUAL MEETING,

The, annual meeting of tho parishioners of St. James's Church, Lower Hntt, was held last evening, the Bev. Joshua Jmses presidißg over a good attendance*. The clergyman's report gate a resume of tiw years work, and advocated securing tlw services of an assistant curate or a stipendiary reader. Meat-ion Was made of the. services of the previously licensed reader. (Mr. D, M. Yeats) and othof lay readers. A high degree; of effieieney was behie niiiintsined in tlie Sunday* School under the superratend-■ .Ciicy of Mr. R. House, supported by a. eapablo staff of 13 teachers t inchidhlK. several mtsmbftrs of the C.E.jM.S. _ A '. division of the sfthool was niado during tbc yeitr, the two poriiotvs 'meeting pi sepafato buiklings.. The Girls' Friendly Society,. tinder the of Misses Jone3 aiiid Hollis, was ialso do'ing good W'oi'k, and had recently raised the sum of-58'fiwJi a sale of work, in response to au appeal from the JSlrtori. Mission Euud. The report- eoilolnded with the hope that, in wark of the Chtirch wauld be carried on in har-mony. Tile following olfinem were elected :— Vestry, Messrs. Woodward, Hussell. Hvans,' Altions, Aiisftn, House, awj Aksaiidorj clergyman's cljnreJiwattkn. Mr. F. De 3- Ckro; paFisiiioners' churchwarden, Mr. D, M. Vijats;. auditors, Messrs. Oerdki and Wilkins. The hakncrtishcet showed the iina-nces cf tbo cbujfeh to bo in. a satisfactory condition. The folkwiiig motion was mow! by Mr. D. sr. Yeats, and eaffied i.m.n.ninWHsly:—"That this meeting, rcprosontiin? the parishinners of St. James's Church, Jjßwer H&tt, expresses vie.'tiflii that a sufficient lUt.iftbfir.of thp. people of New Zealand have- evidenced their desire for tbo refercudinn requested by the Bible-in-Schools liOaciio te justify tlia Govornment in introducing tbo necessary measure and resolves to support tbo executive in artv steps ■which'may ho taken to ensure, tlie submission of the question to tbo whole, people tit the next General Election." The Rev. Mr, Olarkson ■{■roi'yre.s.etttjug the BiWc-in-Schofils L.eagtw), in speakinj; to tho motion, stated that .it was not now a questiWi fo.t tlie C;iiutcb«»s; it had become, one of naftonal imjxirtifnee. The time bad arrived wlien tho comniiinity dfen)o.p.ded. an opportunity to espross ft* opHiioii on this reform. It was not eomnicvcial .prosperity that pla«d a eoinrtry in the lead, but righteotisness.