CONGREGATIONAL UNION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 64, 15 March 1916, Page 8

CONGREGATIONAL UNION.

DOMINION' CONFERENCE. (By Association.)! DUXEDIX, Tuesday'At the conference of the Congregational Union the following officers wave elected:—Chairman for 1917, the Bey. VV. M. Grant: Rev. Mr. Bridger: preacher of union eermon for 1917, the Rev. Mr. Saunders. The following amounts were allocated to districts to be raised in 1918 in the interests of the union and Home Miseion funds: — Auckland, £200: 'Wellington, £165; Canterbury, £70; Otago, . £ 145. The conference unanimously decided that the Government bo asked to introduce a law closing publichouses at 8 p.m. The fourth Sunday in August was set apart annually as Congregational Sunday in all churches. A pronouncement was agreed to. viewing with grave concern tlie awful waste involved in. overlapping of denominational interests in-church extension work, and urging that steps be i taken to arrange a conference of free | churches, with a view to avoiding this glaring evil. Aβ a pledge of earnestness tlio conference eet up a committee empowered to confer with atiy representatives appointed, by various communions for this desirable end. The. committee was elected as follows:—Auckland d'fetriet, the Revs, Craik. "Sutherland, Messrs. Smeeton, Fowlds. Hooton, Dykes, Moore. Danby, Potter, Swen, and Campbell; Wellington, the Revs. Hunt, Aspland, and Hodge. Messrs. Lewis, Meadow, croft, and Hunter; Canterbury, the Revo. Johnson, Job, Messrs. Richardson. Bull and Wade; Otago. the ■Revs. Heigh way, -Ashford. ' Wallacs. Messrs. Wilkinson,-Lcijpn, and Barr.