ST. PETER'S CHURCH

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 30 April 1927, Page 12

ST. PETER'S CHURCH

The annual meeting or St. Peter's Church was held on Thursday, the vicar, the Eev. Canon H. Watson, presiding over a large attendance of parishioners. The balance-sheet, showing a credit o£ £174 Cs lOd, and the churchwardens' report, were read and adopted. The sura In hand included £69 carried forward from 1926. An annual sinking fund was I neede dto provide for cost ot repainting the church in the near future, at an estimated cost of at least £500, and £50 would have to be spent at once in repairs to the exterior. As compared with last financial year, the general offertories increased from £766 13s 6d to £829 4s 2d, being at the rate of £1 7s 2d per Sunday. The sum of £80 was received by the vestry from the ladies' working party this year towards the general expenses of the parish. ■ The death was recorded with regret of If r. Albert Richards, one of the church's oldest worshippers. At the time of his death, Mr. Richards was a member of i the vestry, a synodsman, hon. secretary of the schoolroom trustees, an hon. treasurer of the • free-will offering fund, and hon. secretary of the Missionary League. During the year the Church received the following bequests:—Estate Hamilton Gilmer £100, estate Mrs. Ellen Richards £20 15s 6d, estate Mrs. Ejizabeth Stockbridge £25 lls 4d. The position of the endowment fund continued' highly satisfactory, the total amount in hand to date being £3278 17s sd, of which £2900 had been invested, the balance of £378 17s 5d being in the Post Office Savings Bank pending investment. The retiring penny collection scheme recently instituted by the vicar continued a marked success. The actual amount received for the year from this was £127 Is Bd, an average of just on £2 10s per Sunday. The rebuilding fund; with the assistance of donations received, now totals !£670 5s Id. Of this amount £500 had been invested in inscribed stock, whilst the balance -was in the Post Office Savings Bank. The election of officers resulted: —Wai--den, Mr. W. E. Bethune; people's warden, Mr. A. W. Curtis; vestrymen, Messrs. J. L. Barnicoat, A. G. Ballinger, J. Bardslcy, W. D. Bennett. g/A. Loncuet. G. Lawrence, G. W. Robinson, R. Wilberfoss, and Captain Harris.