CENTENNIAL OF CANTERBURY
PLANS OF PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The Christchurch Presbytery at a meeting yesterday, when considering its plans for the centennial celebrations in 1950, decided to withdraw its invitation to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church to meet in Christchurch next year. Other decisions made by the Presbytery were: to hold a service at St. Andrew’s Church on the afternoon of Sunday. October 15. 1950, after the Scottish centennial field day at Lancaster Park; to arrange for a broadcast of a special St. Andrew's Dav religious programme next year; to write to the ecclesiastical sub-committee of the Canterbury Centennial Association suggesting that the National Council of Churches organise a united thanksgiving church service to be held at the end of the centennial celebrations. and to investigate the possibility of one or two prominent overseas Visitors bein.: invit-d to Canterbury during the celebration!.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25933, 13 October 1949, Page 3
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