QUARTERLY CHURCH MEETINGS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3134, 12 July 1917, Page 9

QUARTERLY CHURCH MEETINGS

TAKA,NAKI STREET METHODIST. The quarterly meeting of the board of management was held on Monday evening, and was presided over by tho JKov. J. G. Obapmau. There was a. large attendance of officials. A review of the various activities of the circuit was favourably reported on, with tho exception of the Sunday school returns. The exigencies of the war has made demands upon the teaching staff, aud the problem to face is how to arrest tho gradually declining attendance of scholars, notwithstanding the up-to-date equipment: in thj methods of teaching. The church membership returns revealed a total of 800 for tho circuit. The balancesheet showed a credit to circuit account of £17. The foreign mission report showed that £100 in excess of the ordinary annual income had been received—a most satisfactory increase. Plans for a new school-house at Brooklyn were presented and approved, and a. vote of £100 from the circuit fund was allocated towards the building fund. Sister May's report of the Aro Street Mission was most satisfactory. An even balance-sheet was presented, and it was reported that the mission premises had had electric light installed.

THOHNDON METHODIST. The quartorly meeting of tlio officebearers of the Thorndon Methodist circuit was held in the Molesworth Street Chnrcli on Monday, evening. The Bev. A. Header (superintending minister) presided over a. good attendance. The members' roll was slated to be as follows:—Molesworth Street, HI senior, 23 junior; Kaiwarra, 15 senior; Karori, 46 senior, 18 junior; Northland, 31 senior, '20 junior—a total of 299. The statement of receipts and expenditure for the. quarter "was:—Ecceipts, £97 15s. M.: expenditure, £93 7s. lld.-debit. £1 12s. 9d. The Boy. Mr. Reader's salary, as from April 1, was increased, by unanimous vote of the meeting Tne reports on the work of the liuuday school in the various parts of the circuit were all very encouraging, and denoted that the children are being well cared for. In somo instances, however, there is a shortage of teachers, and assistance in thU direction was asked for. In coi-.tinu-atKiu of the effort, on behalf ol foreign missions the Bev. Mr. DrjUo is to be asked to conduct services . : n Karori and Northland at a. time suitable to luili. : The report regarding the visit of Mr. Nicholson (the foreign mission deputati'im to the Molesworth Street Ohureh showed that the sum of £35 had been promised or donated to the. work among the natives in the South Sea Islands. Koi'olutions were passed congratulating the liailwa-y Department on the stand it had taken in regard to race trains, also in favour of the movement to closo all hotels in the Dominion at 6 o'clock in the evening