PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2317, 26 November 1914, Page 7

PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY

CHURCH PROPERTY ACCOUNT. ffcy TeleEraph.—Press Assooiatioiv';^: ' Dunedlh, Nov.embpr.;2s., ' At the Presbyterian Genpjal j; Assem-..; bly this morning the report of the Church Property Committeo.-Avas , presented. ■ • Forty-eight trail •• properties wore executed, 27 .titles.,were received for. safe keeping, £21,330 "was invested in twenty securitje.s t v£72so\was received in' repayments of sev<!n .investments, fourteen congregations borrowed' on mortgage £10,180 and;.fi.Ye congregations received £2776 for the-'sale of old manses and sites. .The trustees reported the receipt of a ■ donation of £500 from Mr. Walter Macfarlane, £123 from an anonymous friend,-an3--£SOO from a. sympatliiser, for the-missions. Legacies were received from the executors of Mr. BuUen (Kaikopra),-: £500 for Kriox College building fund; executors, of Mr. William Fraser" (Fairlie), £4097 for the orphanage-; executors of 'Mr. Merrick .(Cambridge), £150.t0r foreign missions, and £150 for. Maori mission in the Auckland district. - : .

Ono of the principal questions arising out of the report of the, ~Ch,urch Property Committee was as: the Fraser ben.uest.of £4000 for.the Auckland Orphanage. This was from the beginning a separate institution, and. not. now within the terms, of the.be> : quest. A motion was moved ,to alterthis and allow Auckland to participate., Ultimately it was resolved-..that the trustees ho empowered to take over the Leslie Orphanage on conditions, to bo, arranged to the satisfaction. of •. tho Presbytery and the trustees. '. i '.[. . ■