CHUECH MEETING

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 195, 13 May 1919, Page 6

CHUECH MEETING

WADESTOWN AND NORTHLAND, The annual meeting of the parochial district of Wadestown and Northland was held on Friday evening, the vicar (the Rev. J. 'Edwin Jones) presiding. The vicar said the various organisations connected with the church had done excellent work. A new Sunday school or parish hall was badly needed. The present school was in a dilapidated state, and was inadequate to accommodate all the scholars and the Bible class. He commended this matter to tho earnest consideration of the parishioners. His grateful thanks were duo to the church workers and to the Indies who promoted t\\n sale of work, which had brought in .£lO5. He regretted the departure of Mr. R. Pankhurst, who had been appointed onanist of St. Augustine's, P°topp, and expressed his sense of tho help he had received from the vestrv.

The rcnort of the vestry was road by Mr. Y. ,T. Halse, churchwarden. The fiiiiuicos of the church had suffered somewhat mvin? to the influenza epidemic; the total receipts, however, were .£39 in excess of Inst year's. Plans and specifications for enlarging the schoolroom lind been passed by His City Council, and tenders wore noir being sought. Mr. TT, I'-nv.-lMir't. v'ciiv's churchwarden, left the ili-:!''iet in October last, and Mr. ft. A. Taylor had been appointed in his p!p:id. were given to the lay readers, Sunday school teachers, choir vniiliprs. ('"curators, ladies' guild, bcllri'iwrs, and Mr. ,T. ft. Cooke, for their .-en-ices dunng Hie year. The report cneeliirlrd viMi an cryression of thankfnlnp:s t" pntl fnr (loijverinjr the world f-niv. Mie horrors of war, mid praying (hat He would grant all nations grace "Unci power to meet the problems (hat new confront them. The balance-sheet showed total receipts amounting to J3353 (is. fid., with balances in cash or in bank of /:3H 185. 2d. . flip report and balance-sheet were ndn-fed. Mr. ft. A. Taylor was anpointed v'cay's churchwarden. OHmr office-bear-ers were elected as fol'nw-.— People's clifHnrerdpf,, M'\ V. .T. False; vestir, Mn«rs. YY. -T. T.cos. ,T. S. Yonntr. ,T. G. rvnlc. TT. I\. T. IV. PnWk .T. MWs. P.. R. iviiWrc, m „i h. Hilkie; auditor. Mr. W. K. Morris. . An auction sale of unclaimed dogs will be held at tho Corporation Yards tomorrow at 2.15 p.m. Tho second term of tho Wellington ffirV Collwai >vitl .boc'n to-morrow-