WELLINGTON SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2407, 12 March 1915, Page 3

WELLINGTON SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION

The committee of the Sunday School Union met in the managers' room of St. John's Church last evening, Mr. J. 0. Duff being jin the chair. It was decided to hold the scholars' examination on the second Friday in July, on the June quarter's lessons, and to ask Airs. T. H. Gill, Misses Helyer and C. E. Kirk, Mr. T. H. Gill, M.A., LL.B., and Mr. G. W. Morrice, M.A., to again act as examiners. . Mr. Bingham moved tho notice of motion standing in his name to allow all schools having 100 or more scholars on the roll to elect two delegates to the committee; this was seconded by Mri J. R. Burley and carried. A sub-committee was appointed to arrange a series of meetings during the winter for teacher-training and the discussion of methods of Sunday School management. The secretary reported that the arrangements for the Palmerston North Convention were well in hand, and everything pointed to a very successful gathering. Papers were to be given by three leading State school teachers, by Mr. Freeman, cne, of the lecturers of the English Wesleyan Sunday School Union, and others. The number of delegates expected was', 64, exclusive of schools in Palmerston North and neigh-' bourhood. The secretary's annual report, showing a healthy state of affairs, was read and adopted. The treasurer's report showed that the ordinary income foil considerably short of the ordinary expenditure, and that it would be necessary to devise some means of providing funds for prizes if the same scale is to be continued as has been usual.