PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 November 1928, Page 5

PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

i ’ I GENERAL BUSINESS TRANSACTED. (By Telegraph—Frees Association.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 28. At the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church it was decided that the locations of assembly committees be as follows : Foreign missions, Auckland; home missions, Auckland; Maori mission, Waikato; public questions, Dunedin ; life and work. Southland; theological hall, Dunedin; youth of the church, Christchurch ; sustentation fund, Dunedin ; beneficiary fund, Wellington; supply and appointments, Auckland; statistics, Wairarapa. The Rev. W. Mawson was appointed foreign mission secretary until the next assembly, and the salary was increased to £SOO, with £IOO house allowance. The report of the beneficiary fund committee showed the credit balance on August 18, 1927, was £153,330. The income for the year had been £20,391, which included bequests amounting to £I7OO and £SOO received from the fire insurance fund. The expenditure had been £11,840, and £793 had been paid to members withdrawing from the fund, leaving £7757 to. be added to the capital, which now stands at £161,088. There were 283 contributors to the fund. Annuities to ministers’ widows and children amounted to £II,OOO, which was 7 per cent, of the capital. The resignation of the Rev W. J. Oomrie, church treasurer, ■ was accepted as from January 1 next, and 1 he was granted a year’s salary in lieu of leave of absence.” Mr V. G. Chapman, of Wellington, was appointed in his stead. A grant of £SOO a year for five years out of the church fire insurance fund was made to Scots College, Wellington.