ST. PAUL'S CHURCH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18685, 15 April 1924, Page 11

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH.

PARISHIONERS' MEETING.

The annual meeting of parishioners of St. Paul's Anglican Church, Symonds Street, was held in the parish hall. The report and balance-sheet for the year ended March 31, showed gratifying progress. Services had been better attended with a very large increase in communicants. General offerings showed a substantial increase. The Symonds Street properties had been thoroughly renovated, and the verger's quarters greatly enlarged, at a total outley of £500. The total indebtedness on the parish was now £1947. The building completion fund stood at £1825. The required missionary quota had again been more than raised. New cassocks and surplices for men and boys were on order, at a cost of £50. ,Thc Sunday-school was fully staffed for the first time for several years, male teachers predominating. ' Appreciative reference was made to the innovation of sermons illustrated by lantern pictures. A flourishing young men's hockey club had been formed. The junior girls* guild had held a successful sale, in aid of foreign missions, and other sales had been held in reduction of parish debts. . ■""• Mr. A. I). Stanley was reappointed vicar's warden, and Mr. E. C. Thomas was re-elected parishioners' warden; Mesdames Hardie Neil and A. J. Stratford, and Messrs. L. J. Arm it age, Fairhead, S. W. Hadlow, A. .7. Horsley, H. F. j Jilling. C. S. Michael, and G. A. Webb were elected vestrymen.