METHODIST CHURCH.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1998, 4 March 1914, Page 8

METHODIST CHURCH.

TIB CONRBR3?N<aS» (By Assoß-leUonA puriedin, March 3. At the $totlradist Confcreneo W-day, it was agreed by resolution to oopgwutwlate- the Rev, W. Leo and the Rev.. J. S, ftislnvofth en tho attainment, this daj, -erf their jubileo as preachers. Tho Itei*.. S. Law-yj- presented the report of tho Church Buildiiia' ; and Loan Fuliel During the year the capital of tho fund has b&m increased by ■amalgamation wit-it tho Primitiv-o Methodist Jubilee Loan Fund amoamting to £1555.. A sum of £211 ira.§ paid iii cash and the b-alant® was represented by current loans. This increase of oai)ital, however, is more than balanced by the larger requirements of tho United Church,, arid ths need fat increased: funds becomes more urgeat every year. Loans amounting to £1450 have .'been issued during the year as follows F»ni the general farad: Pieton, £28.ft; Foxtott, £300 ; Njipiier Scmth, £150; .Otafti parsonage, £.230; Addingten, '£300. , From tho epecM , braticß; Bluff, £100; Aramono church an 4 parsonage, £200. Final payments hav« been received on account of Ormni chiirea, •Tuat-apere parsQiuige, site d Stratford elmrch, Rotonra cUuj'cli, Btigflton chnrch, sito of Kewmnrke-i) parsonage, and Eitham church. Sfcveral propertieshave .bean and .buildings emeted witliout raismg fe proportion rf cost required by tho conference ptt-10, Thftve arc some cases of long-standing arrears in the- paynigjjt of loan iiista.lBieilts. The £27 year as a. bad debt lias been written off. .

The Her. All-, tawry moved-the adoption of "the r-E-pB-rt, and iihe- mtftion vrss eitrrfeil wtthoat diseu-ssibn-. Tho comm.ilteo'were ihaiilvei and i new cemiiiittefe Set np, consisting of the fiomsexional scerotary and 'superintendents of eliuroli, of the Durham Street Central ■Mission, East Wools-ton, Sydßiiham,, St. ■A.lbaiis, Addington, «iid Papaufli"cir.ouits, the BflV. a. BuH.tlifi Bon. G. J. Swiith, Messrs-. 6. H.' BlaelfivoU, 3. Dmrti. A. K. England, W, H. Seed, fj. Barrett, H. Holla.n-d, J, W. Flester. and A. F. Brayten.

Mr. J. AV. Qo-pitlioriie asked for an fcx.p-JaiM.tion fov tljo sate of the lato Primitive- Cluirch prwef'ty at Islavmd Bat for £'450. ■ '

Tlie Rev. J. Dawsoii ropKed to fe«t that, as ■ thero wer& now two viuirehos tjiofe, one had been sold t<j th« Kaistists,

The Roy, S. Laivry raored tto reaiffii'ination ef the' rules of tho ball fund, and the Rev. J, BfWSftii', insoeoudiiig tbo resolution,, ompliasised, ih© jnipbftanoe of tho rules beiiig oisertsd jn refefencß to rtisirtg a:cMtain pfireentago pf. tlio money required for ii« buildfugs-, so tli at ijiily a r«aSMt*We amount <si debt stiouM remnin. Ho sffld that they should do with plainer buildings rather thspj liavo aiiolt an aiMuirt of doH as wfiulfl umpph tho work of the Church. Biefo miisfc also bo mote wgalaritj' in. repayment to tiio loan fund, or othe-rivise tliejr emiM not' Uavo ffioney to lend ill othcV. trust funds., ,

O'u the motion, of the secretary the discussion was ad3Otiriied._ :

the following dreujts, flow &\m to ■prflvido for married instead of Bingjo iiiiiirstetSj irero relieved:—PaerSa, Rotonia, Slaiiaia.) Taihape, Waimarwio, Palmerston Nertii (Broad Str<?ot}, .South Waifarapa, Timara (patik Street), Dunediu. {Dundas Streot), aiid liivcrcargill (Leet Stroßt). The cflwference ap.j»!hted a commission te report upon the liratter of stittrting a, third married ministers' eir- ■ eutt, coinprisivig. Asbhtestj P-ohangmaj ■and adjacent, ' • The cowferciKio spttfcd tbo foMoTvirtsc .is ihe order -of -statiQiis to talb marriiod ministers i- Taihaiie, Invcrcargill) Timarit,, Man-ttias Duncdm (Ihmdas Stixset), and p.a.eroa,