ASHBURTON.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14223, 11 December 1911, Page 5

ASHBURTON.

The monthly meeting of the Ashlar-, ton Technical Classes Association was held on Friday. The chairman (Mr H. Davis) reported that the debit balance at the bank was £72. Mr J. Crpy wrote making a present to the Association ot the wool he had sent for exhibition at the recent breaking-up ceremony. The chairman reported that the profit® from the breaking-up ceremony had amounted to £67 17s 4d. Votes of thanks v«*i passed to all who had assisted -to make the ceremony a success. Satisfactory reports were sent in by the examiners of the cookery and dress-making classes. Accounts amounting to £32 9s. 3d v were passed for payment. •One of the largest meetings of the parishioners of St. Stephen's Church, Ashburton, ever held, took . place on Friday evening. The vicar, tho Rev. E. "Wnitehouse, presided. The chairman explained that the meeting had been called to consider: the nomination of a vicar to succeed himself after April next. The parish nominators had, as the result of correspondence vrifi the Rev. Prebendary H. V. Stewart, of Stoke-on-Trent, England, who visited Ashburton. a .year ago_as,ono- ,q£.. 'he. Home Missioners,' strongly ' reconvmended tho Rev. J. V. WUsonj M.A., Prebendary Stewart's senior curate, but tho Synod nominators had failed to agree with' this, and the meeting had been called to get an expression of opinion from the- parishioners. A resolution favouring the appointment of Mr Wilson was carried unanimously. " A petition was then read by Mr H. Woods, which embodied the resolution, and which it was proposed should be sent to the Board of Nominators, urging the claims and the choice of the of St. Stephen's. The petition was signed by all present, about 150, and it was unanimously decided to forward it to the Board or Nominators. ,