CHURCH MEETING

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 193, 4 May 1918, Page 12

CHURCH MEETING

(B ST. JAMES'S, :..OWER HCXT. Tho annual meeting of parishioners of St. James's was held on Tuesday even.ing, tho vicar (tho Eev. A, L. iiauseil) presiding. . The report for tho year was read by j-llr. I' , , -vl- IJvans, aud, together with I the balance-sheet, v.-ns adopted, j' Tho report stated that Ihe tinanccs of i the narisli are now in a. thoroughly goou ! state, mainly duo to the re-sponse to tho ; .sjji'i-ial appeal made by the vicar at i Easter. i Tho vicar stated that General Synod j luul aslced for an expression of opinion I from tlie parish on the question of i church franchise, i'his gave rise to conI siderablc discussion, aud it was eventual- | ly resoived that all persons over the ago I of 21 who had been baptised should be i allowed to vote in church affairs. ! The vicar nominated Mr. V. M. Evans ! as his churchwarden, Mr. J. E. Ellis i was ru-ekctcd' people's churchwarden, I and the following were elected vestryI men: Messrs. O. B. Robinson, J. O. ! Anson. W". H. Russell, C. E. Levien, G. ■ Aldotis, A. Perry, C. T. Natusch, A. F. '■ Tosswill, O. T. Baigent, and E. D. Wood- ; ward. The rcstry subsequently re-elected Mr. Woodward treasurer, n. position he has , occunied for the paet five years. Messrs. : H. B. Gordon and W. C. Cuff were rej elected auditors.