P.S.S.A. offices move to new premises

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32640, 23 June 1971, Page 18

P.S.S.A. offices move to new premises

In a few weeks the Christchurch Presbyterian Social Services Association would vacate its offices in the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association building and move into its own premises at 236 Hereford Street, the association’s superintendent (the Rev. G. F. McKenzie) has announced.

“This move will bring us next door to the St John’s Church vicarage, so that our association with the Anglican City Mission will be even closer,” said Mr McKenzie. The P.S.S.A. had bought the building known as the Presbyterian Centre; it was previously owned by the Church Property Trustees, he said. “The PS.SA. has always worked in close association with all the various denominational social services in Christchurch,” he said. “In the last few months, we have been co-operating closely with the St Vincent de Paul Society and the Prisoners’ Aid and Rehabilitation Society, in sending all used clothing to the City Mission Cloth ing Store. This saves duplication of services“We have also been in constant association with the

Open Door; and the P.S.S.A. is planning, from the beginning of September, to provide another social worker at the Open Door, because they have become very shortstaffed in relation to the increased number of visitors to the centre," said Mr McKenzie-

“As time goes on, I can see that there will be increasing co-operation between religious and nonreligious social services, especially with the development of Church Union; and the proximity of St John’s Church to the P.S.S.A. offices will help this union,” he said. Mr McKenzie returned from Nelson last week, where he organised the establishment of a combined Presbyterian and Methodist committee to raise funds for extensions to the Greengables Home.