CENTRAL MISSION.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1802, 19 September 1906, Page 19

CENTRAL MISSION.

A CAUSE THAT NEEDS ASSISTANCE. The Central Mission in Wellington is known principally as an earnest evangelical bouy possessing a very excellent brass band, its mission consists oi going out into tne hignways anu by-ways oi tne city and attempting to bung home the solemn trutiis ox right and wrong to tnose wnom the estamisneu churcnes are not in touen Witu. ine mission held its annual meeting on Sep. 12 in the Herbert street Mission hail. Tne chan was by mr C. M. Luke. The annual report snowed the receipts for the year to be £:OS IDs s|d, and the outgoings to be £665 8s lid. leaving a ereuit of £4O Is 7-id. included in the receipts was, however, a loan of .£250 (a second mortgage.) raised to wipe off' a debt that had been incurred on an attempt to establish a temporary abiding place for released prisoners at Makar a, so that reaisy on the general account the mission is in debt to the extent of £2lO. it is to wipe out this liability mat a special effort is being made, the response to which up to the present has been the reverse c.f encouraging. The nrooeity account consists of a&sets as: ©anting to £2475 (including the land and building in Herbert street, estimated at £AKK)). Against this there are liabilities amounting to £I2OO, leaving an approximate balance of £1 z3o. The secretary of the Mission Enueavour Society i exported that there was a credit of *~iT 19s, the result of twelve months’ operations. The society had thiriy-eignt active and seven associate members, and was rich in hope for the future. The junior Endeavour Society, which meets every Sunday at 10 a.m., has nineteen active and six associate members. The Band of Hope, which has j ust been founded, already boasts twenty-four members, and gives promise of a heaThy future. Th© mission choir contributed £8 towards general expenses, and supplied itself with a lot of new books. The Mission Brass Band—a really firstclass body of musicians—is thirty strong, and much credit is due to Bandmaster Baker for the able assistance it lends to the mission. During the past year it gave nine Sunday afternoon performances at the Hospital, and was instrumental in collecting a sum of £77 for that institution. The Bible class, under Mr Ridding, has sixteen members, and meets every Friday night and Sunday afternoon. The Sunday school, with Mr E. Cramp as superintendent, has sixty scholars and is doing good work. A few weeks ago, Mr Cations, who had interested himtJelf in Sunday school work, left Wellington to enter the Melbourne Training College with a view to taking up mission work in India. Prior to the meeting the anniversary tea-meeting was held in the hall, about two hundred sitting down to an excellent repast. The tables were presided over by Misses (2) Houlder, Henniker, Mesdamee H. and A. Baker, Amies, Dredge, . Clark, and Sinclair. The report would be incomplete without mentioning the name of the chief organiser in Wellington, Mr A. O. Ottb, whose courtesy and enthusiasm are cheerful aide to the good work being done by the Central Mission in Wellington.