PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANAGES

Te Puke Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 25 March 1947, Page 1

PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANAGES

HARVEST FESTIVAL GIFTS

Presbyterian Orphanages in tin' Auckland Province will benefit from numerous Festivals. As m former years, St. Andrew’s, Te Puke, will lie among those congregations which supplement theii donations to the ('huroh’s Orphanages by setting aside Harvest gifts for them. The annual report of the Pmshylerian Social Service Association, which has oversight of diverse missionary and benefit activities on behalf of needy and lonely folk, states that there are some 00 girls and boys in its Homos, at present. Extensions of the work are contemplated, and are dependent on an improvement in the general building situation. This applies particularly to Homes for elderly people. Another item of interest loculiv in that in response to last year s appeal lor Combined Orphanages .a large' sum was raised by the Province. of which the Presbyterian share (or On* Leslie (girls) and Onehunga (boys) Homes was £1,27.5. In introducing the report, the ehnrimaii of the. Association writes: “The cost of the work is heavy, but thanks to the increasing generosity ol the Church members and people and children we have been able to discharge our trust without financial - worries.’’