Auckland Sailors' Rest and Home.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 98, 24 April 1886, Page 6

Auckland Sailors' Rest and Home.

The annual meeting was hold on 14th inst., at the Sailors' Rest, Queen-street Wharf. Tho report stated that the position ot tho present building is found to answer the purposes of a Rest fairly woll—the situation being convenient; but the expense ot working, as at present, is out of proportion to that required for the more extended operations whioh havo boen the constant aim of the president and committee. With tho view of establishing a permanent Home.tho Harbour Roard have liberallymet the views of the committee by granting a first-class site at the foot of Albest-street, opposite to their own offices, and comniandiug a view of the harbour. The conditions having been settled, competitive designs have been invited, for the erection of a portion of a permanent Home, being part of tho general scheme in contemplation, at a cost not excoeding, say, £3,000. The report of tho Seamen's Missionary referred to the work accomplished during the year, the increasing popularity of tho Rest among the seamen, and their wish to see it converted into a Home; also to the success which has attended the efforts to provide a piaco for the flsherboys and lads in the coasters who could not share in the advantages of the Rest, It was found necessary to keep this part of the work separate, and the committee made over to Mr Fell for this purpose the galvanised building in the yard for their solo use, which has been fitted up as a gymnasium and reading-room by private subscription. For distressed seamen and their families a sum of £12 19a 3d waa subscribed by seamen visiting the Homo and others, and a sum of £10 was similarly suboribed and paid over to the treasurer of the Melanesian Mißßion for tho support of a native scholar. The accounts showed that a further and final sum of £150 havo been rccoived from tho executors of the late Mr Coatloy, making a total bequest of £12,150. Of this Bum £11,650 has been invested, producing last year an income of somo £828, and tho remainder, £500, has beon advanced to working account, to be repaid as interest accumulated. Tho receipts from all sources during tho year amounted to £1,080 lis lOd, and after deducting tho sum of £170 lis Id, advanced from .capital account, there remains a not receipt af £916 0s 6d. Tho expenses of working the Rest amounted to £771 _ 2d. of which sum about £170 iB due to various exceptional items, aa loss of rent from the lower premises boing unlet for some time, heavy writing down in view of probable removal, whon the fittings, etc., will be of only nominal value, extra asslatance and alterationa, leaving a margin of £11* lis id. Tho year was begun with an overdraft at the Bank of New Zealand oi £142 18s 4d, and there was on the 31st December a oredit balance of £172 7s id,