DIOCESAN SYNOD.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 17, 31 October 1929, Page 6

DIOCESAN SYNOD.

THE SESSION ENDED. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The Diocesan Synod rose at 6 o’clock /ast evening, the business for the session having been dealt with. The president (Bishop West-Watson) was in the chair. Archdeacon F. IN Taylor moved:— ‘•That the question of building up a fund for the erection of a Synod Hall he referred to the Standing Committee for consideration.” The motion was carOn the motion of the Rev. H. E. Malden, it was decided: —That the Diocesan Registrar ho instructed to publish the attendances of members at subcommittee meetings pi tlie Standing Committee and Education Board in the annual report presented to Synod; and that the Standing Committee bo requested to consider the expediency of establishing a scheme by which parishes and parochial districts be required to contribute to a sinking fund for the repair and painting of churches and vicarages. ' Archdeacon Raggitt moved: — ‘ Fuat the boundaries of the parish of St. Peter’s, Riccarton, be amended bv omitting the words ‘Cutler’s Road, thence northerly along Cutler’s Rond to Riccarton Road,’ ancl inserting in substitution thereof the words, ‘A point where an imaginary line drawn parallel to Euston Street and two chains and a half east of the same: street, meets the railway, thence by that imaginary line to Riccarton Road.” The motion was carried. It was decided, also on Archdeacon Haggitt’s motion, to grant the petition of the parochial district of St. James’s, Riccarton, and duly ( constitute it a parish.