Church of England, Gampbelltown. MEETING OF MEMBERS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 87, 6 October 1894, Page 2

Church of England, Gampbelltown. MEETING OF MEMBERS.

A meeting was held in the school house on Thursday evening to discuss necessary arrangements relatire to the erecting of a Church at Campbelltown. A good many members were in attendance, and the friendly spirit and energetic manner in which each one volunteered to do their best, was a good criterion to their intention to have a church erected. Rev J. D. Russell presided, and opened the meeting with prayer. He then called on Mr Geo. Merrett, as convener of the meeting, to Rive an address relative to the desirability of having a church. Mr Merrett stated that two quarter acre sections had been set apart for the church. The site proved a suitable one, and would be suitable for the church. Mr Russell then spoke of the necessity of having a church, as the congre. gation had so wonderfully increased of late that the school room proved insufficient for sitting accommodation. Mr J. Costall spoke in glowing terms of the rising township, and the necessity of keeping the members to* gether and holding services every Sunday. He then moved a proposition, " That the time had come when the rising community of the Anglican church iv Gampbelltown found it necessary to erect a church and that steps be taken for the erection of the same." The motion was met with an amendment by Mr Nicholas, •' That at present the meetings be carried on in the Temperance Hall, till a more suitable time presented itself for the erection of a church/ This failed to have a seconder. The proposition was then put to the meeting and carried. Some of the members were desirous that the church should be built on a section nearer the square, and that the two sections allotted for the church be sold, and another purchased. Mr Richmond proposed, and Mr Merrett seconded, That the church be built on the sections alloted for the same. This was unanimously carried. A discussion took place as to the amount the church should cost, and it was decided to build one at a cost of about £250, exclusive of voluntary work. A subscription list was then passed round to see what could be obtained in the meeting, and £54 was promised by twelve members present, Mr W. Davis promising £20. The ladies then volunteered to do the caavasing for subscriptions, and Mrs Davis, and Miss Costall were elected as a committee to arrange for the same. A great amount of voluntary work was promised, and members spontaneously offered to find piles, shingles, stabs, and to cart the timber and erect a fence, besides stumping the sections. Another meeting is to be held in about a months' time to arrange for the procuring of the timber, eto. Mr Russell then dosed the meeting by prayer.