HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 April 1912, Page 7

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

annual Meeting.

• -r . -T.ruj .. '.i.'-'".. —Vi*. 1 ■ •» ■ The r annual parochial meeting r of Holy Trinity Church was held-irt< Trinity Hail .last evening. > V-Tacar-Jpreaicled' and bpfeneil tli’e mfeetjng with 'prayer. ' The Church wardens presented the annual report and halance sheet’ 1 <vhich were received a’ud adopted; The receipts from all sources during the, year . to over £9OO and the expenditure'to about the same amount.* The'deht I 'on the hew vicarage has been reduced -frofri ’£3oo to £240, an old debt on the Sunday: School extinguished and a new, engine for blowing the organ purchased and paid. for. A kind Greymouth friend .had presented the Church .with a Very handsome set of Vessels for Holy Communion. The donor deserves onr best ' thanks. , The best thanks of r the ■ Church were also due to Mrs-Shallcrass and the: ladies who had so * successfully ~ ,collected- - theSustentation Fund, .which -amounted during, the year to over £ll9. \ v" The report went - 'on to state that there had been'a falling off in the contributions through the envelope system, and it advocated the appointment of a special organiser, who would require to work in con/ jnpctjon with Mr A., B. West, ,who 'for some years'"past had been the custodian and registrar of the envelopes; Mr W. -Bray, people’s warden, who read the report, said that the special efforts which had been made to.provide funds for building the new vicarage, .had probably been the contributing cause ,to the slight reduction that was noticeable in the offertories. On the whole, they had every reason to be 'satisfied • with?'the financial progress of the Church. - ■ Mr Isaac- Leech (Supeirutendent of the I Trinity Church Sunday; .School) read the I following report:— ' , 0 i '“Another year has passed away, and once more w'e ihave to present our report of the work ;done on behalf oi the little pones. We have much to be thankful for. j The number of scholars pn the. roll at pre- ■ sent is. quite equal to that of last year, i “There, are twenty-one classes in the Sunday School. The infant division has now fifty-three scholars. -There are other classes each with - twelve and thirteen scholars in them, ? and I maintain t|iat these classes are far tqo ; .large for the ,chers ,t° do justice to, and had we more teachers we could work the classes to much better advantage, both to teachers and scholars. The teachers’ roll at present stands at 22. ■ . -• “A Teachers’ Preparation Class is. conducted every Tuesday night by the Ven. Archdeacon York and Mr Kelham, to whom we convey our grateful .thanks for the instruction. so given. We should like . to see move of the teachers themselves of this class. ■ : “At the present time - tile prospects of the Sunday School seem very "bright, and •we enter upon another 'year with every confidence that we shall receive a ipll, measure of the Divine blessing.“We have had to take, the collection on

the fitst. Sunday iiV ’every .month .for the • support of the school,, thereby, making the collection towards the mission, work snrnL ler. [! lam unable to give you a statement , of the financial position of fcjie' schobl as* : the secretary has been too .busy to prepare ! ing’ the!,baliinco sheet for {this meeting.? (■ “I: desire to express, opr grateful thanks’ I to Misses Wfiite and .Batcheloi’V for their kindhess/ v in Coming forward; and' training ' the children for the giveir last year' in aid of'the prize fund, and, also to all, kind friends who helped with . the refreshments for ,the tea, which was such a success. 1 ' ; , ■ * \ ■' ( '[‘We are - -?still teaching the Bible and prayer book lessons from the nefv book. 1 “In coqclvteion; I ;beg to tender to l the i | teachers and to all who in any way ,assist the Sunday School oiy heartfelt thanks for , the loyal support‘whidK has been accorded to ,me dqfihg the past year as superintendent. I'Vish tdVxjfress my..thankfulness to. Almighty God for the blessings of the, i, oast and my prayer is that those blessings, may Continue for the. future that onr work

may be to the glovy.af God.’’. ' ‘ Encouraging ‘ Vepdrts •• -yveie 1 g ; lso' te6eiv;ed from Earoa-and ; Blaketdwh : Sunday schools -«the formerunder the Supriintendehoy of Mr H. it,. P. Smith fend the ‘latter of Mr )R.:.G. KJelhain., ’ ~ ‘j; \,, '.;.. .. • Intererijim? reports were read'by Mr J. t ;3iVil?on. cQncerniug thu ■T.y.M.' Inath Auto, hy Air H. X, P .SiVuth qf .the G.E;

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