DIOCESAN SYNOD

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2665, 21 October 1882, Page 3

DIOCESAN SYNOD

At a long meeting of the Diocesan Synod yesterday, the report of the oommiaion on church insurances was read. The report made the following recommendations •• Draft resolution I,—That it bo a recommendation to the Church Property Trustees to undertake, as the present insurances expire, the assurance of all churches, parsonages, schools, and sohoolhouses vested in them) including the Cathedral and Bishopscourt, at the current rates charged by the Canterbury Fire-Insurance Association. Provided that the trustees shall re-insure, either wholly or in part, with some good and substantial insurance company or companies, in the case of all buildings involving special risks, or exceeding a maxium insurance value of £I2OO, until the accumulated reserve fund shall justify the Synod in recommending the gradual absorption of all risks. “ Draft resolution ll.—That it be an instruction to the Trustees, should they see fit to adopt the above recommendation, to endeavour to obtain underwriting on terms more favorable thsn those of re insurance 5 and further, to raise by loan, if needful, upon the security of the Church Property Trust General Estate, or any portion or portions thereof, suoh sums of money as may from time to time be required to meet losses by fire of church buildings assured by them, and to pay interest and sinking fund for such losses oat of the premiums received from the several parishes and districts, applying the remainder of snob premium* to the accumulation of a fire insurance capital or reserve fund of at least £IO,OOO, ” It was deter - ined, on the motion of Colonel Eiohbanm—“ That the application of certain Church members resident at Pleasant Point, Albury, and neighborhood, to be formed into a parochial district separate from the parish of Temoka, which proposed alteration has been duly enquired into and recommended generally By the Standing Committee, 1 be now granted by this Synod.” Elections for Synodsmen, Ohnroh Property Trustees, and members of the Church Work Society wore then made. A long debate on the abolishing of pew rents was started by a motion made by the Bev. E. A. Mortimer, The following motion was finally carried unanimously:—“ That this Synod earnestly recommends to the Ohnroh officers of the several parishes and parochial districts of the diocese the desirableness of adopting, wherever practicable, the system of free sittings in church.” A select committee was appointed to con* sider the best way of opening and maintaining two Church schools—one for boys and the other for girls—in some central position in Christchurch. A considerable amount of other business was transacted, and the Synod adjourned, at 11.6 p.m., till 4 p.m. on Monday.