KAIAPOI PARISH.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1946, 20 May 1880, Page 3

KAIAPOI PARISH.

Ameeting, attended by twenty-nine persons, was held in tne SurHay Schoolroom on Monday evening. The lie?. D. O. Hampton offered prayers, and opened the proceedings by explainirg that the object of the meeting iras to devise means to liquidate the debt on the parish. Two courses had been suggested to him—namely, to issue communicants' collecting cards, and to hold a bazaar, which latter he could not say he fully approved of, but would leave the matter in the hands of those present. He stated that being interested in the result, and not at present in good health, he would withdraw, asking the senior warden, Mr Bevell, to take the ohair. Mr Revell made a statement of the finances of the pariah, from whioh it appeared a debt of £ll7 had been incurred. Mr Brundell, who testified to the earnestness of the clergyman and his popularity in the parish, moved—" That to meet the deficiencies a bazaar be held in aid of the church and Sunday-school funds." Mr Porter seconded pro forma. The Chairman said he was morally certain if the parish could not pay the stipend it would lose the services of Mr Hampton, and possibly bo attached to another parish. The motion was carried. A committee of Mesdames Porter, May, Oldham, Mathews, Bevell, Dudley, Winterbourne, Ovenden, Stow, Clark, Hardey, Hempleman, Neeve, Blundell, Hiatt, Howard, Eeldwiok, I Soott, Woodford and Misses Monck (two), | the churchwardens and vestrymen, Messrs Mathews, Hardey, Neeve, Hurse, Woodford, Howard, Brandt, May, Hiatt, Olark, Burnip, and Monk, was nominated to manage the bazaar. Mr 0. E. Dudloy was elected secretary. It was decided the committee should meet on Thursday at 3 p.m. On the motion of Mr Porter, seconded by Mr Wnitefoord, it was resolved—" That parishioners be requested to contribute more liberally to the support of the Church." The mover painted out the disgrace of offering the clergyman a lower amount than ploughman's wages, and advised parents to contribute to the offertory through their children when they could not attend. Mr Whitefoord, as a member of the vestry, observed that he only would support the bazaar for want of a superior scheme for raising tbe amount due. The chairman read a comparison of the offertories of last with previous years. Mr Porter moved, Mr Harper seconded—- " The standing committee of Synod be applied to for a refund of £4O expended on interior repairs to the parsonage." Thete repairs were rendered necessary owing to the state in which the house was found on Mr Carlyon's leaving. The clergyman was responsible for keeping it in good order, but as he had gone, it was considered the cost should he borne by the Church generally. The motion was carried. Mr Porter moved—" That the parish haying erected a Sunday School at a cost of £270 the Church Property Trustees be asked to contribnte a quota toward the improvements." It was desired to make the building so that boys and girls would be taught in separate divisions. The Chairman believed the parish had received no return from the trustees for the acre on whioh the former school was built. Mr Brundell seconded the motion, which waß agreed to. A vote of thanks was proposed to the chairman and the meeting terminated.