METHODIST CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 59, 8 March 1912, Page 8

METHODIST CONFERENCE.

YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. When the New Zealand Methodist conference resumed yesterday afternoon at three o'clock, the Rev. .1. A. Luxford, convener of the committee on Naval and Military Afi' airs. ait-Sounded that the committee had pass.-d the follo-ving re•oiution dealing with SUNDAY TRAMS: "That it be a recommendation to the conference that tl\. secretary wire to the Oommnadant of Forces, pointing out the objection that a number of Methodist people harp to Sunday travelling, and asking him whether steps cannot be taken to obviate th° i-ecessity of striking cajnp on Sundays." The uotioa was carried. FIRE INSURANCE FUND. | At the evening session the report of I the Connexioaal Fire Insurance Fund ! was presented and statPd that business! was Diiriru: the year new i insurance had been effected. ar..i levies I paid on properties valued at £'.Hii2. The | only loss sustained was £S 2 for dam- I are done to the Lee-st.rpet church at. I Invercargill, and the iot.il loss since j the fund was established amounted only | to £2liS IS/4. The accumulated capital I amounted to £3!>W S 10. The net pro- |

fit for the year's working was LJiiii $, i 5. The report was adopted, and the retiring committee was reappointed. Mr. \Y. K. Henley being appointed to till the vacancy caused by the death oi Mir. T. P. Oroerod. The Rev. S. La wry, secretary of the Fund, stated that a number of insurance sAienes hu4 made proposals to the committee that the c.onnexional secretary should accept a:oident insurance business on their behalf in the same manner as he arrea.lv dealt with the insurance of ministers' personal property. The secretary would be unahlc t.-> a.o.t as secretary for more than one society. The Rev. 5. Griffith, chairman of the Committee on tieneral Questions, stated that the committee had looked into the matter, but, beyond deciding to draw the attention of ministers m the proposals, ba.i no further recommendation to make. It wa* agreed, on the motion of the Krv. H. Bull, that the Church Fire Insurance Committee be asked to report on the matter. SUPERNUMERARY FUND. j The Kev. S. Lawry presented the bal- | arjic-sheet oi the Supernumerary Fund j w.ncii showed that the total income lot I the \ car wa» £2t>oo. It was explained! that the sum ol £2t>2 S, ti was deposited I in the Post Office Savings Bank and that | the amount represented minister's sub-j s<-ripriors for 11)12 which had been re- i tained pending a decision r-"garding the separation of the fund. : The balance-sheet wa.-. adopted. i For the information oi the delegates. ; the report of the Methodist Uuurch oi ■ Australasia Supernumerary Ministers' j \\ idows Fund for the year ending De- 1 comber 31st, 1911, was read which show- I ed that the income was £20.011 IT', oi | which sun £22.214 14/6 had been trans- i ferred to the capital account. Annuities, I furniture allowances and working ex penses had been covered by 43 per cent. of the revenue and the balance had 'been transfrred to the capital which now amounts to £440.535 5/5. It was dcided in connection with the constitution oi an independent conference for the Dominion, that a separate supernumerary fund for New Zealand be established. j Several minor alterations and amend- I menu to the rules were adopted. The incorporation oi the Board under the

Religious, Charitable ana Educational j Trusts Act was agreed upon "or the conference and the following werp appointed the board of management:—Connexions! secretary. Revs. C. H. Laws. J. N. Buttle. W. Lee. W. A. Sinclair. Messrs ,T. L Scott. J. C. Prudnoe. C E. Salter. J. A. Flesher and W. H. Seed. Mr Tr-jdhoe to be treasurer. The Conference further resolved thai New Zealand's share of the Australasian fund should "be transferred in cash payments such as might he agreed upon by the Board of Management of the New Zealand hmd and the Board of Treasurers in Melbourne. On the motion of the Rev. J. .T. Mathei it was resolved that a grant of £lO should be made to each of the ministers who had in the early days of the fund only received a grant of £4O. CHILDREN'S FUND. The Rer. Barton H. Ginger submitted the balance-sheet of the Children's Fund, which showed that the receipts were j £1585 7/8 and the expenditure £1202! 7/11, leaving a credit balance of £292 19/9. j The report wss adopted and it. was decided that the levy for the year should be 12} per sent instead of 14 per cent.

MINISTERIAL SEPSTON. At a ministerial session, held during the afternoon, to the Rev. T. W. Newbold, was granted permission to act a; supernumerary for one year. The Revs Fred W. Boys and Jas. Wilson were granted permission to visit England, a probationer to be appointed to act as supply in each case The Rev. A. T. Lawry intimated that he would, at the next session, apply for permission to rest for one year in 1913. to enable him to visit the Old Country. SECOND READING OF STATIONS. The stationing ieet wm read a second rime, the foil wing being the Auckland stations: Auckland Distr »t: Pitt-street. W. Rearlv, C. E. Peecroft. A. Reader. J. S. Smaller l supernumerarr ). J, Thomas, i supernumerary) ; Auckland West. A. C. Lawry: Auckland East. <;. Bond. W. A Hay. H. L. Richards ill. R. Dewsbury i supernumerary) : "Wesley College 'Three Kings). J. H. Sirumonds: theological institution. C. H. Garland; Homi Mission secretary. T. G. Brooke; Auckland Methodist Mission. J. Wilson Nicholas Turner (supplr).; Auckland i North Shore). W. H. Beck. J. D. Richworth (supernumerary i. J. Blight I supernumerary) : Auckland (Birkenhead). I". G_ Carr; Onehunga. J. Dukes; Otahtrhn, W. and a home missionary (at Papakurai; Mahurangi P. R, Paris: Thames. T. TTestra.il: " Upper Thames, A. J. Reed at Te Aroha, and a home missionary at Morrinsville; Waihi, •J. J. Pendrar; Paeroa. R. B. Gosnell; Frankiin. E. P. Blamires at Puke&ohe, and one wanted at Waiuiu: Cambridge. W. Tinsler; Hamilton, J. Wriirley and one waned: Huntlr. M. J." Evans-i Paparoa. . S. Bowie"; Northern Wairoa, I W. H. c ocr st Mangawharr and a' j home mi..,ionary at Rchia • Whangarfi, I K. P. Ke..;l. and a home missionarv at' Hikuraag. Rotorua C. B. Jordan. B.D. • j Tauranga. J. Richards: Opotiki J. BJ Beeche; Port Albert one wanted; Te Ktriti, R. B. Laurence; Auckland Maori Mission W. Gittos (Devonport). Hapeta Kertata" (Whangaroa), D. Wilcox (Kaeo), Te Huhi Heretuni (Whirinaki). Hamiora Kingi (JHokianga), Edward T« Tuhi (K*ip*ra>), Piripi Rakena (Wai-

kato), Hone M. Mare (Wmikmbo) ; Te Awamutu, Coromandel, •Helensvflle, Bay of Islands. Hokianga, WTiangm.ro*. Mtngonui, Te Kuiti, Te Puke, Waimana, home missionaries.