MEETING OF PARISHIONERS OF TRINITY CHURCH

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1332, 21 July 1883, Page 2

MEETING OF PARISHIONERS OF TRINITY CHURCH

V meeting of the above, as notified, took place last, night in the Public Schoolroom, for the purpose of electing Church wardens and Vestrymen, to receive the Balance Sheet f-r the ensuing year. There whs good attendance. The Tier, Mr Cocks occupied the Chair, and opened the meeting by reading the advertisement convening the meeting. After further re marks he called on Mr Mur hie, on behalf of Mr DeLautour, to read the balance sheet, which ran as follows : — STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 30th JUNE, 1883. Receipts,

We have this day examined the above statement of accounts of the Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne, for the year ending the 30th June, 1883, and find the same to be a correct statement. Carlaw Smith) a dit F. J. Pi esse J C. DeLautour ] Church D. Murchje J Wardens. Gisborne, 17th July, 1883. Mr Rees, on behalf of the Vestry, read their report.

Annual Report op the Vestry or the ' Parish ok Holy Trinity for the ! YEAR ENDING the 30tH DAY of June, 1883. In presenting their report for the year now paflt, the Vestry are enabled to congratulate the parishioners upon the progress which has been made during the year 1882-83, and to call upon all members and supporters of the Church to render thanks to God for the great benefits we havo received at His hands. A long interval has elapsed—more than twelve months—since the parish has had the services of a settled incumbent, The Vestry most gratefully acknowledge the valuable ministrations of the Rev. Mr Hill and the Rev. Mr Hamilton. No church, however, can hope to prosper either spiritually or in temporal matters which has to depend upon occasional aid, however valuable or however freely granted. The financial position of the parish in under all circumstances a matter for thankfulness to the great head of the Church, and of congratulation amongst the people of the parish. During the year the parsonage has been commenced, and will be most probably completed in about two months’ time. The • ontract price of the building is, with estimated extras, £BOO, of which, excluding the one hundred pounds voted from the stipend fund account, the sum of £391 IBs has been provided for, leaving the sum of £4OB 4s yet to be raised, l;The total receipts for the year, including i he balance of £B7 4s 10d from Inst year, and the sum of £l7B 4s on account ofthe building fund, amount to £7BO 5s 2d, and the total disbursements, including rent of temporary parsonage, £39 6s ; special offertories, £6O 5s 6d ; on account of building fund, £77 Us 7d ; amount to £678 7« ; leaving a balance in the bank applicable to the building fund of £lOl 18s 2d. There is still, however, the balance of tho mortgage debt due to the Rev. 8. Williams of £450, and interest thereon, £36, and sundry small accounts amounting in all to £35 3s 4d, arc also' due ; but on the other hand, the sum of £B2 9s is due for pew rents, as well •:26 Us 6d of outstanding donations The most important point in the year’s proceedings is the nomination of the Rev. W. Cocks, late of Now South Wales, aa incumbent of Holy Trinity parish, and his acceptance of the nomination. With sincere gratitude the Vestry call upon the parishioners to welcome that gentleman amongst us.

Without prayer, without faith, withont charity, the church will not prosper ; but if with Christian lovo and co-operation all parts of the church unite, prosperity will attend irs efforts, and the blessings of God rest upon Tho Vestry do not think it necessary to speak of the various portions of church organisation more particularly, for during the year the church has been in a transition state. They, however, thank God, and take courage and call upon the parishioners to join them in hope and prayer that under tho spiritual care of the Rev. Mr. Cocks the Church may increase and prosper. The balance sheet and report were then adopted. The Chairman then said tho election of a Churchwarden would now t ike place. Dr. Pollen said he had been asked and had much pleasure in proposing Mr DeLautour. Mr D. Johnston seconded this, which was carried. The Chairman now said there were 7 Vestrymen to be elected. The following gentlemen were proposed and seconded :—Messrs. Booth, Pollen, Jobson, Gray, Matthews, Greenwood, Rees, Johnston, Nolan, Shelton and Woon. The election of the above by ballot was now proceeded with, Messrs T. and J. Morgan being appointed scrutineers. The election was as follows Booth, 25 ; Pollen, 27 : Jobson, 22 ; Gray, 17 ; Matthews, 31 ; G • nwood, 32; Johnston, 23; Rees, 23; N 11 b2O ; Shelton, 12. Woon, 7. Tho 7 highest of the foregoing were duly elected Vestrymen for the ensuing year. The next business was the election of auditors. Mr. Matthews proposed Messrs. C. Smith and F. J. Piesse, Mr. Ross seconded. The proposition was carried. This being all the business that the meeting was called for, Mr. C. Gray rose and a ad He would read an extract letter from tie “Harald” signed by the Ven. Archdeacon Williams, which was to the effect that Mr. Cocks, when he came here on a previous visit, did not come with the intention of seeking the Incumbency. He then pointed out that at the last meeting of the P irishioners a letter had been read totally denying this, from Mr. Cocks. As the Archdeacon must have received his inform:.tb n from Mr. Cocks before he wrote the letter, and the affair seemed in an imperfect light, he would ask the Rev. gentleman for an explanation. Mr Coofo repli d that ho was obliged to Mr Gray and considered an explanation npcM«nrr. On the after my arrival a the Bidiops’, ho wrote to the Archdeacon n kin ' •<> a '<>w mo nn coming to Gisborne, to stay with h m, which the Archdeacon readily consent" d t». But before 1 came here I may stale w' at caused me to come hero. I left New South Wa'-’g with the sole intention of going to ICng and, but. all tho boats being then full 1 determined to take a trip round New Zealand. . I called at Napier and saw the Bishop. He asked mo to come to Gisborne. About two days after I had arrived boro I saw a paragraph to the effect that I came to seek the incumbency. Whsn I saw this I was greatly annoyed, as a matter of delicacy to Mr Hamilton I showed it to the Archdeacon. He wrote a letter for tho paper to reply to the paragraph, and I thought it was too strong, but as I thought the Archdeacon knew tho purport of my visit it wns alright 1 did not then intend to stay here, for I wrote to my son slating that if I had been asked t,o stay I would not have accepted, and another thing, if I had intended to stay, I should have further ingratiated myself in the peoples’ opinion. It was the day before I left the Bishop, after visiting him a second time, that I agreed to come here if nominated, and not before. I was only too diffident in not taking more notice of the Archdeacon's letters, but I sincerely assure you there was no intention of prevarication. This terminated the proceedings of the meeting.

1883. June 30 £ s, d. To Balance from last year 87 4 10 ,, —Offertories * 352 1 1 ,, —Pew rents 145 10 0 ,, —Donations towards Bazaar 4 13 0 ,, —Sustentation Fund 1 1 0 ,, —Parsonage Building Fund 174 4 0 ,, —Sundry receipts 1 5 3 ,, —Contractor’s deposit .. 10 0 0 £780 5 2 Disbvbsements. ■June 30, 1883. By stipend—Rev, E, Williams ... 33 5 10 ,, —Revs. Hill and Hamilton ...275 0 0 308 5 10 ,, —Organist 38 7 10 ,, —Organ blower 5 0 0 ,, —Verger 75 0 0 ,, —Lighting 10 18 0 ,, —Insurance ... 10 18 9 ,, —Repairsand fittings 18 4 6 ,, —Printing and advertising .. 10 12 6 ,, —Diocesan Fund Aasessmem 7 0 0 ,, —Sunday School 5 0 0 ,, —Rent of temporary parson ag« 30 6 0 ,, Special Offertories, Hospital 22 5 0 Rev. Mr Hill 30 13 0 Diocesan Fund 7 6 9 60 5 6 „ Miscellaneous Expenditure— Old Bazaar account 2 13 3 P-alters 5 8 6 Stove and Blind for Parson* age 12 17 B Cleaning & Washing 1 16 0 Horse hire & grazing 10 10 6 Maiawhero School 2 12 0 Sundry Expenses 6 18 9 „ Parsonage Building Fund, Frewlit 24 17 6 Car* age 2 14 7 let Progress PaymentuO 0 0 ,, Contractor’s Deposit returned io 0 „ Balance in Bunk 136 11 10 Less unpreeented cheques 81 16 8 — “101 1 2 £780 5 2 * Viz —Parsonage Building Fund 100 12 5 Ordinary Fund 1 5 9 £101 8 2 Liabilities. 1883. June 30. To Rev S. Williams, mortgage £450 0 0 Do., interest ... 36 0 0 486 0 0 Parsonage building fund ... 100 12 0 Outstanding accounts 35 3 4 Balance assets 1252 0 5 £1873 16 2 Assets. 1883, June 30 By Pew-rents due 82 9 0 Outstanding donations 20 11 6 Stove and blinds 12 17 6 Church and organ 1600 0 0 Church furniture 50 0 0 1650 0 0 Balance in Bank of N.Z. ... 101 18 2 £1873 16 2 PARSONAGE BUILDING FUND. 1883, June 30. To amount of contract £777 0 0 Extras, say ... 23 0 0 800 0 0 £800 0 0 1883, June 30. By Cash in Stipend Fund account ... £100 12 5 Cash in hand ... 17 0 0 117 12 5 Donations—Promissory notes heP ... 148 0 0 Do. promised ... 48 12 0 196 12 0 Paid account of building ... 77 11 y Balance to be provided for ... 408 4 0 £800 0 0