ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH.

Evening Star, Issue 12866, 16 July 1906, Page 4

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH.

Tie following is the substance of the annual report to be presented to the pari' hioners of All Saints’ Church on Thursday evening:— Summarised the, income for the year end;d June 30, 1906, is as follows: Vestry £1,023 Bs. 8d; guilds, £150; organ fund. £143 ; snpp.ermntary accounts, £B6 9s lOd ; total voluntary contributions. £1,402 18s 6d, to which is to be added £2OO, sale of organ, making the receipts in all £1,602 18s 6d. The parish income proper has met all ordinary expenditure, and has been able to spare a few pounds to the organ fund (now only about £l7 to the bad); in addition, the' mortgage on the parsonage has been reduced from £BSO to £7OO, which sum now repre.onts tire total indebtedness of the parish. Contained in the statement of expenditure are contributions to nonparochial objects, amounting to £139 10s Bd, including £SB 15s Id for missions. The following are particulars of tie offices of tire Chorcb: Baptisms, 52, including 3 adults; oonfismations, 16 adults (the annual confirmation service for young people being held oyer by reason of the Primate’s absence); attendance at holy communion (not including the weekly college celebration during term), 2,906 (previous year 2,368, the increase this year being chiefly at the early celebration); marriages in the Parish Church, 'l2. The Sunday School roll, including senior Bible class; s held outside school hours, , shown a total of over 500, with 24 teachers. A branch of the St Andrew’s Brotherhood has been established m the parish, and there is a winter club—the All Saints’ Association—with a membership of 65. The Dean desires to acknowledge the valuable assistance given him in the work of the parish, throughout the year by the Rev. H. H. Bedford, curate, and, sipce March, by Sister Prances, deaconess probationer. The Vestry again acknowledge with thanks the assistance rendered by the various organisations of the parish and the voluntary workers associated with them—the Ladies Guild (president, Mrs Longford), the Junior Guild (president, Mrs SjnclairTbomson), the. Sunday school teachers, tl © All Saints’ Association (president* Miss

Haggitt), the organist and choristers, the Vestry Guild, the Bt, Barnabas Association (president* Miss Howiison, * who is assisted by Miss Ronaldeon), the lay readers, the collectors of monthly subscriptions (Mrs Ihmkley, Miss HopcraJt, Miss Hitchcock, . and Mr F. Peake). i The Vestry are specially indebted for services rendered by Mr G. R. Ritchie as j hon. treasurer, by Mr C. Grater as hon. 1 secretary and manager of the teat rent account and by Sir T. H. Lusk as hon. auditor.