BAPTIST CONFERENCE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 24 October 1912, Page 5

BAPTIST CONFERENCE

IN SESSION AT CHRISTCHURCH

BY TELEGRAPH—PHESB ASSOCIATION

CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. The sitting of the Baptist Union Conference was continued at the Oxford lerrace Baptist Church to-day. In vacating the presidential chair the Rev. H. Knowles Kempton made reference to the personal worth of Mr J. G. Fraser, and his loyal and earnest work in the Baptist denomination.

Mr Fraser then assumed the presidential chair amid applause, and thanked the Assembly for the honor done him.

The budget was then brought forward by Mr A: F. Carey, Union treasurer, v who announced that the deficit on last year's accounts had been covered through the energy of Mr Chidgey, who had collected the amount. The estimated sum available for grants was £1405, Avhich it was now proposed to allot in amounts from £15 upwards, and assist causes through the dominion from the outpost of Whangarei in the North tc. Gore in the South.