KNOX CHURCH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1940, Page 8

KNOX CHURCH

WOMEN’S MISSIONARY UNION. ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of Knox Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union was held in the McLaren Room, the Rev J. Davie presiding over a good attendance of members. The reports from the special secretaries of the branch provided evidence of the interest shown in the various departments of the work of the P.W.M.U. Over and above the usual channels of raising money for the missionary schemes of the church, the sum of £4O had been collected from members of P.W.M.U. and friends for the church’s No Retrenchment Fund. The year had been a very successful one. Mr Davie congratulated the ladies on their work, although he reminded them that the success of a church should not be reckoned from a monetary point of view. He said he felt there was a definite trend back to the church again and asked his listeners to help those people who were coming back. He also urged that an endeavour be made to get girls and young married women into some organisation of the church, to fill the' gap which at present exists between the Girls’ Auxiliary and P.W.M.U., most of the latter being middleaged and elderly ladies. He suggested that, something definite be done in the matter. Special votes of thanks were accorded to Mr A. D. Low and the hospital visitors, Mrs Malmo and Mrs Henderson. Mrs J. B. Clark was again elected president, Mrs J. D. Ross secretary, and Mrs G. Beecroft treasurer.