MINISTERS’ STIPENDS.
CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A protest against the low stipend was made bv the Rev. ’J. Paterson, minister of St. Paul’s, Christchurch, at yesterday’s meeting iff the .Christchurch Presbytery. There was a discussion on the sums that, should be spent on the Horne Mission scheme.’ Mr. Paterson said the church’s employees were the most unjustly paid employees in the community. Ministers, in spite of the increased cost of. living, had to live on the same, stipends as they received before the increases took place. “I dop’t see how the blessing of God ran bo expected on the Christian ;Church-,’,’>he added, ‘‘when it does not do elementary justice tc the men it employs , to. do its work.”— Herald Special.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15466, 10 March 1921, Page 5
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119MINISTERS’ STIPENDS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15466, 10 March 1921, Page 5
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