ANGLICAN SYNOD

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10950, 12 July 1921, Page 9

ANGLICAN SYNOD

A SOCIAL SERVICE BOARD. The annual session of the Anglican Synod was continued yesterday. Bishop Sprott presided.. Practically air the business done was transacted iff. committee. Consideration was given to the bill introduced at a previous sitting by Archdeacon Watson. The bill proposed to make provision for the establishment of a Diocesan Social Service Board. It was proposed that the duties and the powers of the board should include: —(a) To raise money for the establishment, maintenance, assistance, and extension of church social service organisations .(b) To establish, extend, and direct any social organisations which may seem to the board to l?e desirable, and (at the request of any affiliated organisation, and when in the opinion of the board practicable so to do, and when in consonance with the trusts affecting the property of such affiliated organisation) to take over the direction of any such affiliated organisation, with power to extend its operations. <c) To undertake propaganda for the purpose of the promotion, maintenance and extension of such social organisations. <d) To take over and administer the moneys belonging to the social service fund as at present existing, (e) To organise a supply of sooMI workers, cmd to keep a register of persons desirous of becoming social workers. (f) To report annually to Synod on its operations. After the bill had been discussed till well after 10 o'clock, attention -was called to the fact that a quorum was not present, and the Synod adjourned.