ALL SAINTS, PREBBLETON.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7529, 19 April 1890, Page 6

ALL SAINTS, PREBBLETON.

__te Easter meeting was held at the Sdbrary on April loth, the Bey. W. F. Snowies in the chair. Mr J. W. Overton, ga the unavoidable absence of Mr White, gtt_4 the financial statement. The receipts for the -fear bad been £162 4s lid, and the -j-pesditure £159 lis. The sum of £14 6s aett had been raised by concerts, and m& 6s lid by the parish picnic. Repair-, -tc, at the parsonage had been made «£ a cost of £2713s 6d. Great thanks are doe to Mr Overton, who kept the stccounts. The accounts and balance-8-_et were adopted, and thanks accorded tfee ebur-hwardens, Messrs Frebble and "White. The curate nominated Mr F_ JErebble as Clergyman's Churchwarden, «_td Mr C. Deal was elected on behalf of (be parishioners. The election of vestrythen resulted as follows:—Messrs Overton, Bodgen, Haydon, Mullis, Yare, Carpenter, .White, Harwood, F. Winter, and Comerfoxd. The following resolutions upon matters relegated by the vestry to the parishioners were carried:—"That the Sunday services in future be always alternately morning with evening and afternoon, and that this resolution be submitted to the parishioners of Sempleton as an expression of the wish of ie Prebbleton parishioners. That the two front seats only and not the forms be seats for Sunday school scholars, the rest to sit in any part of the church." Regarding an offer on the part of the School Committee to defray half the cost of a fence between the parsonageand school grounds, the state of the finances admitted of no Immediate undertaking on the part of the parish, but it was resolved—" That the two Churchwardens and the Chairman of the School Committee confer together with reference to ie" It was likewise resolved, in place of determining any fixed _urn for the organist's salary—" That the vestry raise a sum as an honorarium to the organist from year to year." Votes of tl,p--B were accorded to Mr Comerford for gratuitous services as organist; to Mr -leal as Auditor; to the ladies who had helned In tbe concerts, in church decoraSon? and in other ways; to the Sunday school teachers and members of the choir ;

to the vestrymen and to Mr John Smith for his painstaking and faithful carrying out of the duties of verger and sexton. Mr East was elected Auditor for the ensuing year, and at a late hour the meeting was brought to a conclusion by the curate pronouncing the Benediction,