23 YEARS' WORK.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 14 November 1930, Page 17

23 YEARS' WORK.

<w , PRESBYTERIAN SOCIAL ! / SERVICE. ! FBANK RULE TO RETIRE. After nearly 36 years of service for I|-Pw«byterian Church m New Zeaj tie last 22 of which have been ■ - w Superintendent of the Social t Imb Association in Christchurch, the fe# Frank Rule, well-known for his Ifljtia the City, is to retire at the end ifHfci, month. The history of the social work in Christchurch "E itory of Mr Rule's own work, wbe!l 1116 uudertakin ß was first •jjSjS? he'was chosen to start it on IthMlT and to guide its destinies. -'WTtliniiii service work by tue Presby;:lßiel>Cbnreh really began in ChristMjSlSli because there were a few earn--1 rffr- in the Church who felt that it 'lBmH do ita share' of what had to be iSjjSJ'igia Mr Rule. "A deputation ■ met the Officebearers' J iScUtion in the old Alexandra Hall ilSKmidwr, 1908, and as a result the - MttWehnrch Presbytery appointed a IsinHUitM to enquire into the subject. T MeKenzie, of St. -was convener of this com-o-e of its duties was to out'te * of the proposed work and w agent. At that time I was flgSfamn of the Patea parish in the frlflpfr* fdand, and Mr McKe&zie wrote WBLai ..ving me to take the position. isEil spent, therefore, the January of Dune din looking into the work Hp|.lad been begun there a little more ■E two years before, and in February, HK accepted Mr McKenzie's offer. jKBBw firat seven years were given up to the HBtenile Courts, until, when the work Hpre had grown considerably, I stood ■u« iff favour of the government apKtar. .In 1917 I ws#fipp ; t?inte(l partreiifvyrobation Officer under the 2908 Act, and the next 11 years Ilition until I again Government 18 years in ChristGovernment posts Homes. lowever," Air Rule ad sprung up for better homes for early in 1911 the ied me from my go out among the in North Canter;h to raise money t of a children's that month's camit was ealled the [ was brought into q aid of the Young which held a gar i of work, raising of a gift of £SOO uncan Rutherford, is raised. d our first home, m Airs Fisher in tarted with seven me grew so fast re than 60, and in om of those years ite home for boys In January, 1916, f our property in jan our first boys' iought that there tions in Christi more would be tenza epidemic of t 60 children, and me in Windermere . arrangements for th in Timaru. of the Associa--0 children 'have nds, 540 of whom for some time in we have been we have had only rua through an aeBaths. Many of rho have left the d and have homes arly all still keep In" fact, the very ok in 18 years ago or Kome. ;y of these chil- , "still coiue to me y of them I am have ever known, limed at all these the best possible iristiaii home." [nidation,- Mr Rule I, indeed, all the ition, had been ributions of memian Church in the r which the Genren them juriadicsa T"roei the Waith to Cook Strait is also interesting t the capital cost ieb had grown up 20 years had all ;gaoies. General le from the legal dren, from annual )m moneys raised d through the disrec years past the. ge, was born in out to Australia Zealand in 1894, Tew Zealander in. p time he carried the North Island, s first charge. Or--1896. Then for a tationed at Paeroa, n in Maungaweka, where he stayed came to Christ's sons are at pre[Jnited States, and iristekurch. Two

died in the Great War. All have shown ability above the average, five of them being University graduate^'and one a doctor of music.

MEETING OF ASSOCIATION. The twenty-first' annual meeting of the Christehurch .Presbyterian "Social Service Association will be held -in St. Paul's Hall, Lichfield street, on Monday, November 17th, • at 7.45 p.m. • This is the -only occasion during: the year that this Association has any -public function. For nearly 22 years the Presbyterian Church has been doing fruitful work in its Social Service''Department. This Church maintains three homes for unfortunate children in this City, and throughout the Dominioii they provide for thirteen homes in all for children, as well : as a". . vjery-t fine home foraged folks in Dunediri. ■ In these three homes there are 177 girls, 245 boys and 21 senior boys in.r evidence, while the different Associations in the Dominion have the oversight of - 230 other boys and girls. To-day these different Presbyterian Social Service Associations in New Zealand are earing for 728 unfortunate children'and .aged people. ,