ST PATRICK'S CHURCH

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 21 January 1913, Page 3

ST PATRICK'S CHURCH

annual meeting of parishioners. I The annual meeting of the parishioners of St, Patrick's Church was hold in the schoolroom on Sunday evening, the Very Rev Dean McKenna presiding over a large attendance. 'Hi? chairman said lie was pleased to see that the interest in clniroh matters was growing. He read the following statement of the finances: Church —Receipts, £l6O 2s Od; expenditure, £l9l 10s Id; debit balance, £3l 13s 7d. School: Receipts, £"205 2s od ; expenditure, £197 9s Odi; credit balance, £7- 12s lid. ponds property account: Receipts, £2175; expenditure, £2191 17s lid; debit balance for the year, £l6 17a Hd. The balance-sheet wa« adopted. Dean McKenna said he was afraid the annual picnic would have to be abandoned this year, owing to certain difficulties. A concert and social. to follow would be held on St. Patrick s Day, and i" this connection lie would undertake personally to pay the expense of obtaining performers. He urged the ladies to unite to make the gathering a success in order that the church might be free of debt before ho left for the Old Country. [ The following committee ivas elected r Messrs J. C. Cooper, H. J. O'Leary, J. O'Dowd, B. Chapman; J. 1 A. McEwen, ,i. C. McKillop, J. Kelliher. :ilul J. Matthews.