DUNEDIN PRESBYTERY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24418, 2 October 1940, Page 9

DUNEDIN PRESBYTERY

CHAPLAINS TO THE” FORCES APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED Reporting to% meeting of the Presbytery of Dunedin last night Dr E. N. Merrington staled that the Rev. J. A. Thomson, of Invercargill, had been appointed chaplain to the Southland Regiment, at present camped at Forbury Park, for October. The Rev. Dr lan Fraser, of Wyndham, would be the chaplain for November. The Rev. N. E. Oakley was chaplain to the Field Artillery, now in camp at Wingatui. for October, and the- Rev. H. O. Bowman. of Maheno, had been appointed to the Ist Otago Regiment at Burnham. Dr Merrington also stated that a brief devotional service would be held in Queen’s Gardens prior to the departure of overseas units from the railway station.

Speaking for the Life and Work Committee, the Rev. C. M. Sullivan stated that the statistics of the congregations within the Presbytery showed increases in all directions. The stipends of the ministers had been increased by £136 and the allowances for conveyance by £ll7. Givings to the mission funds of the church had increased by £966. and the gross revenues of the congregations within the Presbytery had increased by £3147. The report of the Youth of *'.e Church Committee stated that there were 14 Girls’ Life Brigades in the various congregations and three more were in prospect, one of which would be at Wakari where the new Government settlement was rapidly filling up. A Home Sunday School, conducted by correspondence, was not meeting with the success it deserved.