DIOCESAN STANDING COMMITTEE.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14660, 8 May 1913, Page 2

DIOCESAN STANDING COMMITTEE.

The Diocesan Standing Committee met on i. uc&uay. A iuktur nuin ua) Vicar oi oc. Aioaus expuuuea tne inlun.iuuo oi wie vcsnj m resptct oi tiio improvement of tne vicaiuge auu scuool sues before building. Approved. An application troin tile Lures' x , neuuiy •Society, UaiueiDUiy, tor assistance iv eniai&iug tueir iiuatel, was liuiu over uaiu tue estimates tor mc year snouiu be under consideration, lue Uisnop brougut up tno qutsuon of forming tue Parocaiai i>istrict of iieacousneiu, pare of tne f arisii or Timaru to be liiciuaea in the district, teniativeiy for woiKing purposes, and formally at the next session of JSynod. It was agreed to constitute tne parochial district on the understanding that £230 be proviued for the stiponu by local* guaianteus and grants, with £20 in lieu of vicarage. Tne vestry of Lower lliccarton having expressed their readiness to raise tneir guarantee to £150 for the entire services of a resident priest, the atanuing Committee agreed to make a Churcn Mission tfunu grant of £30 towards the stipend, and to accept the proposals of the vestry. A report of a special meeting of tne sub-committee for' church missions, for conference with the liishop of Waiapu on Maori work, was road, and it was agreed to contribute £21)0 to the Diocese of Auckland and i-ii/u to the Diocese of Waiapu, for special work among heathen or lapsed Maoris, in the course of the current year; ana that renewed application be made tor the services in this district of a Maori priest to work under the direction of the Rev. C. A. Fraer. A report by the sub-committee for religious education was read and adopted, inclusive of a recommendation that the sum set apart for grants for apparatus should be applicable to all Sunday-schools, except in cures having church day schools, and that country schools should receive preference in the case of conflicting claims. A loan of £125 on the ten years' scale was recommended to be made to the Parish of Fendalton, tor the enlargement of the school at Wroxton, subject to the approval of the plan by the Plans Committee. Also, a loan of £35 to the district of Governor's Bay, on the five years' scale, for re-roofing and repairs to the church, Gebbio's Valley. Report was made tnat the Tunnel Hall, Otira, had been sold to the Railway Department for £IVO. Permission was granted for the erection of a hall on the ounday-school site, Hokitika, subject to the "approval of the trustees. It was agreed that travelling expenses of the members of the Board of Nomination should be net from the surp'us of the Church Property Trust subsidy, Advances of stipend, etc., were reported, and the committee adjourned.