ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1908, Page 3

ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH.

ANNUAL MEETING.

There was a good attendance of members of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church last evening, on the occasion of the annual meeting. Rev. J. Gibson Smith presided. The annual report, \vhieh was adopted, showed that during the year the membership had decreased from 24 to 239. There were 19 new members, but 2 removals. The Sundayschool roll numbered 132, and 12 teachers. The Sunday-school had been cramped for want of accommodation, but negotiations for tho purchase of a piece of land at the back of the church property had so far been successful that not only had a site been secured free of cost, but there had been a substantial profit left over on the resale of a portion of the land, and this balance would be applied to the building fund. To this fund £130 raised by sale of work for the same purpose would have to be added. The sum of £2900 had been obtained from the sale of the church's property at Turakina, and temporarily invested by the Church Property Trustees, pending a decision as to its ultimate disposal. The balancesheet showed : Receipts, £752 13s lid ; expenditure, £682 4s lOd ; credit balance, £70 9s Id. Among the receipts weie £262 15s sd, collections ; seat rents, £106 ; ground rents, £123 17s lid ; and £63 11s 7d from various special collections for outside objects. Mr. D. R. Menzies was re-elected auditor, and with other officers thanked for his services. A social gathering was -'•eld altar, the meeting.