DIOCESAN STANDING COMMITTEE.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14407, 15 July 1912, Page 4

DIOCESAN STANDING COMMITTEE.

The Standing Committee met on Tuesday, July 9th. A report by the organising secretary of the Church Misison Fund was read, showing that tho offertories last year wero £85 5s 3d loss than in tho previous year, and. tho subscriptions, in spite of the usual applications, were £153 8s lOd less; but as there was in tho previous year a special anonymous donation of £100, the falling off should bo reckoned as £53 8s lOd. The year ended with a debit balance of £99 4s lid. It was resolved that the annual special appeal for the fund, should be made on Sunday, September 29th, The committee then proceeded to allocate the Church Mission Fund grants for the current year as follows:—Amberley £20, Banks Peninsula £15, with notices of withdrawal after 31st March, 1913; Belfast £55, Burwood £30,' Courtenay reduced- to ; £30, Cust increased to £30, Eiiesmerc i £20, Fairlie reduced to £40, with notice of further reduction next year; Governor's Bay £60, Halswell and Spreydon I reduced to £20, with nonce of ' further reduction next year; Hinds ' reduced to £15, with notice of further I reduction next year; Leeston £'20, Leithlield £30, Lincoln £15, Little I River £15, Malvern £50, Methven £30, Mount Somcrs £50, Oxford £25, Piiiflipstown reduced to £10, Prebbicton, lor Hornby work, reduced to £25,1 with notice of further reduction next year; Shirley, consideration deferred ; fcJumncr £10, Sydenham, for second curate £20; Waihao reduced to £50, with notice of further reduction next year; "Waikari and Scargill £60, Woolston £50 and Jubilee Home chaplaincy £20, Hokitika Public Institutions chaplaincy £25, curate £20, Kumara £50, Ross increased to £75, Otira consideration deferred; Makarora, £20, Hakateramea £15, Deaconess Institution £50, lay evangelist £50, official expenses, organising secretary £10, lay readers' expenses £10, Phillipstown Church Loan i £_0, "Hew Brighton Vicarago Loan £20, i t Otira Tunnel Hall Loan £34 4s, Kumara | Vicarage Loan £11 Bs, interest on pur-1 chase of Sydenham Church site £'20, Te Oranga and Bottle Lake Hospital j chaplaincy £20, St. Saviour's Orphan-! age £25. A resolution of the Northern j Clorgy Conference was referred to the Sub-committee for Education for such i notion for the assistance of Sunday school instruction as may be in their power. The Church Property Trustees wero recommended to carry out the proposals adopted in re the sale of thc Ashburton vicarage site and glebe, and the application of the proceeds. Plans for a bell-tower at St. Paul's, Papanui, and for a new schoolroom at Avonside wero roported on and approved. It was resolved to recommend the Church Property Trustees to make a loan of £600 for the term of years, not exceeding ten, desired by the vestry towards the erection of a portion of the Avonsido ; schoolroom, to be paid £1 for £1 to meet the sums raised by the parish for this work, and on the architect's certificate of value of the work done. It was resolved that in the case of an advance of stipend by the diocese for a second quarter, bank interest shall be charged to the parish or districts on the same. A Church Property Trust grant was authorised for a second curate at Timaru from Ist September next. A request for permission to remove trees from the north side of the Fairlie Church site was referred to the Archdeacon of Timaru to visit and report. Notico was authorised to be sent to the Maori Mission Board that while the diocese will continue its contribution to the Board up to 31st December next, after that date it must reconsider the arrangement. The sum of £90 was authorised to be paid for exhibitions for studeilts for holy orders. The allocation of the Church Property Trust subsidy to be recommended to Synod waa

adopted as follow-:—ln lieu of vicarHges £140, equal grants to 57 cures £2850; grants to chaplaincies, Christchurch Hospital, Sunnyside Hospital, and Burnham Industrial School £150; grants in aid of stipends of assistant curates at the discretion of the Standing , Comniittco £471 15s Id; for religious | education in day and Sunday schools j £450, exhibitions for students for holy ' orders £180, towards expenses of dio- ■ cesan administration £300, Maori Girls' , School, Ohoka, £30; instalment of loan Ito Standing Committeo in re St. Mar- ' garet's College £50, instalment of grant for building new deaconess house £100, : surplus at disposal of Standing ComI mitteo for diocesan purposes £78 4s I lid; total £-1800. The Archdeacons of • Christchurch and Akaroa, and Messrs H. D. Andrews, W. G. Brittan. W. C. i Bean were appointed a committee to j arrange for hospitality to and seating of ! members of Synod. The Registrar was directed to write to tho vicar and churchwardens of the Lincoln parochial district with respect to thc dilapidated | condition into which the church and } church site at Greenpark had been | allowed to lapse sinco the discontinuance of services there. Report was made tliat tho annual parish meeting at Fairlie had been deferred until June 26th, contrary to the regulations. Arrears of advances of stipend mndc for the year ended 31st March, 1912, owing by Lincoln and Malvern, wero reported.