SOCIAL SERVICE.

Evening Star, Issue 12687, 13 June 1907, Page 8

SOCIAL SERVICE.

The monthly meeting of the Presbyterian h'K-ia! Service Association was held in First Church Hall on Tuesday afternoon; present—Dr Xis bet (in the chair), Revs. A. Cameron, J. Chisholm, and E. A. Asclsen, Di> Riley and Church, and Messrs R. Chisholm, J. Blair, and P. L. Clark. Dr Agatha Adams wrote offering her service i as honorary mcdicaf adviser to the orphanage. Tiie offer was most heartily accepted, and Drs Church and Riley were appointed honorary consulting medical ofliceis. The treasurer presented the financial cu.auir.ont, elsowing that £6O had been contributed since last meeting. Dr Xisbet and the Rev. J. Chisholm placed before the Committee a draft of a constitution for the orphanage, which, with a few minor amendments, was accepted by tho meeting. The agent reported that a large number of cases had been dealt with during the month, and everything possible had been done to relievo genuine distress. The Hospital and Benevolent Institutions had been t - i tod, some funerals conducted, and both bun Jay and week-night services conducted i i a number of churches. Fourteen children were at present under the care of the Association, and a number of applications

and a number of applications connection with others were in hand. 1 i_ thejo cases great care was taken tint i stives were Dot relieved of any financial : ••-.ponsibility which they ought to bear, i tit that wherever possible they were made i > contribute towards the maintenance of t - children. A constant lookout was kept for good homes where children could be placed, either by adoption or by other arrangements. Four motherless children had thus been provided for during the month.