AUCKLAND PRESBYTERY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 243, 11 October 1916, Page 11

AUCKLAND PRESBYTERY.

■'■ The Presbytery of Auckland met In St. Andrew's Wall last evening, Rev-. X- Inglis ■Qloderaitor) presiding. A report presented" by -*tne Moderator ;Showed that £<J7O nad been collected in Auckland up to the present for the Presbyterian Chaplains' Fraud. The sum originally aimed at wi s £500. ; "' " "

Mr Arthur Wilson was appointed representative of the Presbytery on the committee of -the Seamen's., tMisaSfi, Iβ sac " cession to the late Ca.pt. ilcKenile. .-' 'A: discnssion took .plaCe on the proposed amalgamation of the Letae Orphanage with tie Presbyterian iSociaJ Service Association. Mr A. J. ißußrican explained centai»-legal Bifilouities in the way of 'the abolition or tie present Leslie Orphanage Trust Board and expressed the opinion thai it would be unwise to take any action at present. ?fo resolution was passed on the subject, A sohednle of proposed grafts' in aid 01 charges and home mission dlscricts was drawn for submission \ to Che General •Assembly in November. I Most of the suggested gran£s were the same as -those made ™t year, but in somp fases. v an increase •was recommended.

A number of elders from the different leoGsregationis were appointed delegates to *cc -Gcajeral AssemWr.. ~.v. . '- At the close of the. otner business <vi ■ appeal" made to the Presbytery was deait •with in camera.