CHURCH ARMY FUNDS' ACCOUNT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3052, 13 April 1917, Page 8

CHURCH ARMY FUNDS' ACCOUNT

NEW ZEALAND.AND THE.:' • EMPIRE'S SAILORS. Sir, —I have pleasure in submitting these accounts, asking you to bo good euough to publish them. Messrs. \Villiams and Aettle, Napier, have to-day . cabled the £50 to England required to maintain tho Hawke's Bay Bed at the (Jliurch Army Hospital for Sailors for > the year. The name of-the second bed endowed last year -ivill remind our wounded sailors being nursed in. the Church Army Hospital in Scotland of . our country and its patriotic inhabitants—"The New Zealand Bed." It again requires its £50, and subscriptions will be welcome. No doubt there will be a- naval battle soon—peihap3 on a big scale. ■ Our trade routes and national prosperity are intimately, connected' withthe Navy. Fifty pounds for a third bed, "The Dominion," will very likely be forthcoming from our country, to be ready to assist those of our brave sailors , and mine-sweeper men who will be wounded in our defence. Following are the subscriptions received and amounts forwarded: — Penny subscription for Christmas dinners to London, poor and Belgian refugees in Church Army Homes.' March 30, 1917. £ s. d. Received to date from the schools of N.Z. and other friends of the poor .;.... 133 2 lli Donation from Secretary for Stamps . 10 0 0 Master Gordon Dassler, of Te tlri, Id. box for the . poor 7 1 0 Total £143 9 11} Paid out December 20, 1916 — Cabled to London 120 0 0 Cable 1 210 Printing acco,unt 4 4 0 Clerical assistance 3 0 0 Stamps for 2100 circulars to schools of the colony and receipts 10 17 10 139 4 8 Received .. 143 - 9 11J • Paid out .................. 139 4 8 In hand for Christmas dinner, 1917 4 5 3J Church Army Naval Hospital Account. April 10, 1917— £ s. d. Donations received to date 69 12 3 Cabled to London .' 50 0 0 In hafld towards "New Zealand Bed" ~ £19 12 3 I am, etc., F. W. WHIBLEY, Hon. .Secretary Church Army, N.Z. The Vicarage, Ormondville; H.B. [We would again remind our readers of the admirable use to which subscriptions forwarded for the Church Arpiy Sailors' Hospital Fund are devoted. As the hon. secretary of the fund in New Zealand states, there.may be a big naval battle at any time how, and New Zealanders, who owe so much to the men of the Navy, should ■be glad of the opportunity to do something for their care and safety. A New Zealand bed in the Church Army Hospital would be a constant remind to the men, there of our sympathy and gratitude for the service they have rendered us in common with the rest of the Empire. Donations should be sent to, the Rev. F. W. Whibley, the Vicarage, Ormondville.]

-The matter of the position of home missionaries under the Military Service . Act was the subject of a resolution carried By the-Auckland Presbytery at its meeting on Tuesday night. The resolution was as follows"The Presbytery of -Auckland acknowledges receipt of the letter of the Hon. Sin James Allen, of March 21, and regrets to learn that the authorities of the Defence Department refuse to acknowledge home missionaries of the Presbyterian Church as ministers of the Church for the purposes of the Military Service Act. . In this we bold that our Church is being discriminated against unfairly. The home missionary of tbe Presbyterian Churoh ministers in the'-Word and Sacrament in the district in whioh he is placed, is usually set aside to that work by ordination of the presbytery, and is almost always the only minister that the Church haa in the scattered district in which he works, "and to withdraw him would mean depriving the people to whom he ministers of the ministrations of their Church. The Presbytery holds that it is unfair treatment to our. Church to refuse to recognise this important section of her ministry. This becomes all the worse when students of another Church are recognised by the x Defenco Department, while we make no claim for our students, who have mostly gone to the front. In making this protest we wish to emphasise the fact that our Church wishes in every way to help the military authorities at this time, but we claim equality of treatment with other religious bodies, _ and respectfully ask for a reconsideration of the matter." The fact that eneuiy firms are still in business in London is shown by a. report of the London County; Council Stores Committed, which says inquiriei have been made with regard to a number of firms who were suspected of being controlled wholly or largely by enemy aliens. As a result three firms have been struck off the Council's: tract liet