BAPTIST CONFERENCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 51, 24 October 1912, Page 8

BAPTIST CONFERENCE.

(Per Press Association.) Christchurch, October 23. The sitting of the Baptist Union Conference was continued at the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church to-day. In vacating the presidential chair the Rev. H. Knowles Kempton made reference to the personal worth of Mr J. G. Eraser, and his loyal and earnest work in the Baptist denomination. Mr Eraser then assumed the presidential chair amid applause, and j thanked the Assembly for the lion--1 our done him. j The budget was then brought forI ward by Mr A. F. Carey, Union treasurer, who announced that the deficit on last year’s accounts had been covered through the energy of Mr Chidgey, who had collected the amount. The estimated sum available for grants was £1405, which it was now proposed to allot in amounts from £ls upwards, and assist causes through the Domin- | ion from the outpost of Whangarei | in the North to Gore in the South.