AUCKLAND PRESBYTERY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 227, 14 December 1927, Page 16

AUCKLAND PRESBYTERY

EDENDALE’S NEW MINISTER A call from the Edendale congregaI tion in favour of the Rev. W. Gilmour, I of Vancouver, at present at Roxburgh, was presented to the-Auckland Presbytery at - a meeting at St. David’s Church yesterday by the Rev. L. Hunt, the inI terim moderator. | Mr. Hunt said that the call was signed by 126 out of 160 members, and by 49 adherentfe. The salary offered was £350, with a month’s holiday. The call was sustained, Mr. Hunt accepting it on Mr. Gilmour’s behalf, and the fnduction was fixed for February 9. The Rev. W. Mawson presented a report of the Foreign Mission activities at the recent General Assembly, and stated that every presbytery in New Zealand, with the exception of Dunedin, had been behindhand with the budget contributions allocated to it. Auckland had been £6OO below its quota in the year before last and last year the deficit was over £I,OOO. This was serious for the presbytery and for the Foreign Missions Committee. Epgland, was accepted as a minister of the church. He considered that the attention of individual congregations should be drawn to the position. Mr. S. J. Harbutt said the Finance Committee had already placed the position before the individual deacons’ court. The Rev. D. C. Herron, of St. David’fe, was granted nine months’ leave of absence from the beginning of February, to attend the meeting of the International Missionary Council at Jerusalem, and to visit Great Britain. During Mr. Herron’s absence the Rev. J. A. Thomson was appointed moderator of the charge. The Rev. E. Mowbray Finnis, from which required about half the budget of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. That the Kohimarama-St. Heliers charge be raised from home mission to church extension status, subject to the approval of the Home Mission Committee, and that the Rev. E. M. Finnis be appointed minister was moved by the Rev. J. A. Thomson. This was approved and j the induction of Mr. Finnis was fixed to take place on Thursday, December 22. The Rev'. Charles Wickham, temperance lecturer from London, spoke on his temperance work among the young, and urged the importance of Band of Hope and similar work.