MINIMUM STIPENDS
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
The national campaign to raise the stipends of ministers and home missionaries to a level in keeping with he increased costs of living is now in progress throughout the Presbyterian Church, and when the General Assembly meets in November it is hoped to have placed every minister on a minimum stipend of £330 a year and to have provided a minima of £190 for single and £220 for married home missionaries.
The project, which has been undertaken by the maintenance of the ministry committee of the church, was described by the convener, the Rev. T. W. Armour, this morning as the most important development in church matters in recent years. Interest in the project had not been restricted to New Zealand, for inquiries for full information regarding it have been received from the Presbyterian Church of Australia. Other denominations in the Dominion also have taken a keen interest in the scheme.
Realising that not every small parish will be able to find the necessary finance to bring the stipends up to £330 the committee has decided to institute a national collection to create a central fund from which the amounts found by the small parishes will be subsidised.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 114, 16 May 1941, Page 9
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