WAITAHUNA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14785, 18 March 1910, Page 8

WAITAHUNA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

The animal soiree was liekl in tiis \\\ailabium l'resbyterian Church on Wednesday evening. '1 ho llcv. .1. S. Ponder prefilial. 'L'lie- Deacons' Court report conamong other tilings, a reference to the kindly feeling existing be.Vvcoti the congregation" and its minister. Mr 1?. M'C'aw Ite-sion clcrki siibmittc<l the teflon report, and Mr Harden (lion, treasurer) his yearly balance s.heel. Jn his report ho said the church-door collections for the year constituted a record in the history of the church, Iho liburalit v cf the 'congregation being dirther manifested in ils- contributions lo minions and other schemes In conned ion with the church, which totalled some £50. Tiles?- were made up as follows:—Day Spring (ihe Sabbath School children's special fund), £3 12s: P.W.M.U. Maori Mksion, £5; Indian Mission, £2 10;; New Ilebridc;. £2 10s; Training Institute, £2 ]0s; Wailahuua CliiTs Guild,' Maori Mission, SUter Alisoir, £6 10s; and Dunedin Orphanage. £5 10s: church extension. £2 4s lid; Assembly's collection f or foreign mission*. SI 6s; Assembly expenses, 1 £3; aged and infirm ministers' fund, £3 10s; Knox College. £1; youth of I ho. cluirdi fund. £1 12s; and the :ongregalion's ,sp:cial cullcction for the Dunklin Orphanage amounting to £3 12$. s'hn total rcceipls for the year were £356 15s lid, and the disbursements £343 14s 3d, leaving, after providing for trust moneys, an available balance of £5 15s 2d. The Treasurer, in speaking to the motion that the balance sheet bo received and adopted, oppressed-(lie opinion that the congregation was both liberal and '.oval. Tile speakers for the overling wore the Revs. .1. Cliisholm and S. W. Clinic, Mr Cliisholm taking for the subject cf his address "The Essentials of Life," ami Jlr Curric "Loyalty." Several anthems were rendered during tho evening by the choir under th' leadership of Mr Patrick. Miss V. Pat-rick presiding at the <*.vin. Soles were also given by Miss Jean jt'Kenzie, Miss Koso Patrick, awl Messrs Witrr and Robertson. The usual votes of thanks being accorded, a very pleasant-, succcssful, and profitable- meeting was closed by the pronouncing o! the benediction.