PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19480, 29 November 1928, Page 15

PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

LOCATIONS OF COMMITTEES. (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, November 28. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand was comtinned to-day. It was decided that the locations of the Assembly Committees be as follows:—Foreign Missions: Auckland; Home Missions: Auckland; Maori Missions: Waikato; Public Questions: Dunedin; Life and Work: Southland; Theological Hall: Dunedin; Youth of the Church: Christchurch; Sustentation Fund: Dunedin; Beneficiary Fund: Wellington; Supply and Appointments: Auckland; Statistics: Wairarapa. The Eev. W. Mawson was appointed Foreign Mission secretary until the next Assembly, and the salary was increased to £SOO, with £IOO house allowance. The report of the Beneficiary Fund Committee showed that the credit balance on August 18th, 1927, was £153,330. The income for the year had been £20,391, which included bequests amounting to £I7OO and £SOO received from the Fire Insurance Fund. The expenditure had been £11,840 and £793 had been paid to members withdrawing from the Fund, leaving £7757 to be ad s e * to the capital, which now stands at fcloJ.,088 There were 283 contributors to the fund. Annuities finista™ widows and children totalled £II,OOO, Which was 7 per cent, of the capital. The resignation of the Kev. w. o. Comrie, Church treasurer, was accepted as from January Ist next, and he was granted a year's salary in lieu of leave of absence. Mr V. G. Chapman, of Wellington, was appointed m his 8 A grant of £SOO a year for five years out of the Church Fire Insurance Fund was made to Scots College, Wellington.