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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 10 May 1923, Page 4

There were over SCO school districts within the jurisdiction of the Auckland Education Board which were required to hold elections for school committees on April 30. When no returns came in for many djstTiets within seven days after April 30, the board advertised, and as a result over 100 further returns are now to hand, but nearly fifty are overdue. For those districts which have not returned school committee members, elections have been fixed to take place on May 28. How to make lapsed Presbyterians contribute to the upkeep of the church and attend service has lately been discussed in many courts of the Church without much effect. On Tuesday night however, an Irishman, who said he was as keen a business man as any Scotchman, believed that he had a solution of the difficulty, and that was to revert to the old way ef charging for seats. Once the Scotchmen had paid for their seats the lapsed ones would also attend church, for no Scotchman liked to pay for anything he did not get the full benefit of. The scheme came like a bombshell to the churchgoers present, who look upon free seats for all who like to attend as one of the improvements of modern churchgoing. Many seriously minded clergymen simply shook their heads in doubt. The recent celebrations of the 80th Anniversary of Presbyterianism in Auokland and the 75th anniversary of St. Andrew's Church has brought out the fact that St. Andrew's Church on the Terrace in Wellington was the first Presbyterian Church built in the Dominion and that St. Andrew's in Auckland was the second church to be built, being about two rears younger than the Wellington Church.