MEETINGS AND SOCIALS

Evening Star, Issue 14513, 3 November 1910, Page 7

MEETINGS AND SOCIALS

SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIVKRSARY. The Dundas Street Primitive Methodist Sunday School celebrated their tlifrtysecond anniversary last evening. The Rev. G. Knowles Smith presided over a crowded meeting. The programme included choruses, recitations, dialogues, and solos by the children, and a comedietta ‘ The Woman That Will Be ’ by the Young Ladies’ Bible Class.

The annual report, read by the secretary (Mr F. Parker), stated thatthe total number now on the roll, inclusive of Bible classes, is 223, against 205 last year; and wo also have fifteen names on the cradle roll. The Bible classes under the control of Miss Brown and Mr S. F. Benton have largely increased their numbers daring tlio year. The infant class has been successfully carried on during theycar by Misses Roberts, Pollok, and Parker, and the number on the roll is seventy-tivo. Our staff show a total of twenty-seven (males 16, females 11), as against twenty-two last year. The average attendance has been twenty during the year. The library, which has been under the control of Mr F. J. Parker throughout the year, contains 626 volumes. Balance-sheet; Total receipts for year (inclusive of balance £lO 3s from previous year) £59 13s 4d, and total payments £55 3s 6d, leaving a credit balance of £4 9s lOd. It was decided at the annual meeting to adopt the graded lessons for the Sunday school as from the beginning of next year.” The Chairman distributed the prizes as follows: Girls, I.—Miss Olivo Williams and Miss Esther Sowerby (equal) 1. Girls, 11.-—Elsie Squires 1, Alice Symons 2, Girls, lII.—-Gladys 'Williams 1, Verona Barnes and Flossie Holdaway (equal) 2. Girls, IV.—Lena Hondra 1, little Williams 2 Uirls, V.—Mabel Simpson, Eileen Pollok, and Muriel Benton (equal) 1. Girls, VI. —Jean Hendra, Violet Hitchcock, and Gladys Benton (equal) 1. Girls, Vll.—Lizzie Manson and Oliva Mauson (equal) 1. Girls, VIII. —Bessie Hendra 1, Mollio Caudwell 2. Special 'Prizes.—lris Baines, Ettio Williams, Mary M‘Gregor, Gi.ssin M‘Gregor, Henry Smith, Charlie Barnes, RitaM'Leod. Boys, I.—Allred Holdaway 1. Robert Betting 2. Boys, ll.—Norman Wallace, Bert Muuro, and Stanley Hendra (equal) 1. Boys, lll.—Stanley Beecher, Willie Nicholls.. and Harold Betting (equal) 1. Boys, IV. —George Nicholls, Stanley Divers, and Edward Hitchcock (equal) 1. Boys, V.—Charles Barnes 1, William Hughes 2. Young Women’s Bible Class.—Attendance and work: Miss Blair 1, Miss Laycock 2. Attendance. —Miss Dil, Miss Parker, and Miss Tuck.