WELL RECEIVED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 125, 30 May 1938, Page 10

WELL RECEIVED.

CENTENARY FUND SCHEME.

PRESBYTERIAN CELEBRATION.

"We have established campaign committees in every centre and have secured the assistance of able business men," said Mr. J. Harry Lang, organiser of the £300,000 centenary thanksgiving fund of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Mr. Lang has completed preliminary organisation work in 20 out of the 21 presbyteries of the Dominion. Xorth Auckland, the remaining district, will be visited next Wednesday.

Mr. Lang said he had found the reaction of the Church as a whole to the assembly's scheme announced last November definitely favourable. From Auckland to the Bluff large meetings had given hearty approval to the plan and members had shown a quiet confidence in the ability and willingness of the Church to subscribe the whole of the sum before the centenary celebration of 1940. Active business men in every centre had volunteered for leadership on the committees established to organise the work in the. various presbyteries. The average church member had displayed equal enthusiasm in supporting the scheme as a worthy celebration of so great an event as the completion of 100 years of service in the Dominion by the Presbyterian Church.

The chairman of the Dominion central committee, Mr. W. Goodfellow. proposes to spend the greater part of June in visiting the principal centres to confer with committees. He will be accompanied by Mr. Lang. Their tour will represent the second stage in the organisation of a scheme which has for its goal the extinction of all the debt on Presbyterian Church property throughout the Dominion and the establishment of the central funds of the Church on a sound and permanent basis.