CHURCH SALARIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1941, Page 6

CHURCH SALARIES

PRESBYTERIAN CAMPAIGN IN PROGRESS THROUGHOUT DOMINION. ESTABLISHMENT OF MINIMUM. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A national campaign to raise the stipends of ministers and home missioners to a level in keeping with the increased costs of living is now in progress throughout the Presbyterian. Church. When the General Assembly meets in November it is hoped to have placed every minister on a minimum stipend of £330 a year, and to have provided minima of £l9O for single and £220 for married home missionaries.

The project, which has been undertaken by the Maintenance of the Ministry Committee of the church, was described by the convener, the Rev T. W. Armour, this morning as the most important development in church matters in recent years. Interest in the project has not been restricted to New Zealand, for inquiries for full information regarding it have been received from the Presbyterian Church of Australia. Other denominations in the Dominion also have taken a keen interest in the scheme. Realising that not every small parish will be able to find Hie necessary finance io bring stipends iif) to £330. the committee has decided to institute a national collection to create a central fund from which the amounts found by small parishes will be subsidised.