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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 June 1928, Page 9

A deficit of £1.865 Ss 6cl' is disclosed in the annual .report of the standing 1 committee of the Waikato Diocese, .to be submitted to. the third Waikato Diocesan Synod, which meet® in Hamilton on July* 2. The committee states that the amount of the deficit is a large sum The initial organisation of any new diocese ivas .bound to be costly and the deficit might be substantially increased before the diioioo.se mas fairly stalbilise.fi. Church people were urged to carry their due share of the burden. Manv remits were carried by the Public Service conference a.t Wellington yesterday. In ended were: That the probationary period for nursing staffs of mental hospitals be reduced ; that in in the interests of the service as a whole, the association press for the a>> ''.ointment of two assistant commissioners ; that the Government be approached 'with a. request that the maximum sahsrv provision in the Family Allowances Act be raised to £295 per annum; tha t a "stipendiary magistrate be appointed as chairman of the Public Serif.? -Apnea] Board; that the association continue to. press for certain exempted departments to be brought under commissioner control. The Australian aviator, Captain Tvingsford. .Smith, ha® filed a. petition in divorce against his wife on the groundsof desertion, states a Sydney message.