ARAMOHO CHURCH.

Wanganui Chronicle, 27 February 1902, Page 2

ARAMOHO CHURCH.

PROPOSAL TO FORM A NEW

PARISH.

The. meeting of the congregation of St. Lawrence Cliureh at Aramoho on Wednesday eveijing was well attended. The vicar (Rev. T. B. Maclean) laid before the meeting a project which amounted to constituting a new parish out of the outlying parts of Christ Churcb parish and the adjacent portions of the Waitotara parochial district, and to appoint an experienced clergyman to tlie charge. He made a financial statement, in which he estimated that the immediate church people of Arauioho would have to raise about £40 a year towards the clergyman's stipend. Mr. Field strongly opposed the proposal, saying that -they were trying just now to raise a small ba-i----unce required to pay for the recert enlargements, and that there was an origiau debt which' had to be paid off before tbe church could be consecrated. There we -p now two clergymen and a staff of lay readers, which enabled them to have two services every Sunday, and he Uk tight they i-hould get out of debt before saddling themselves with a further liability. Eye if they were free of debt, and had mor.ty to spare, he thought it ought to go t' - wards providing clergy for the back-Mo-liS, where at present the settlers only got one .'•ervi.ee in a month, or even three Monti's. During the discussion, Mr. J. T. Stewart suggested that the best way to te.st the feeling^f church people wouid vai to canvass for subscriptions towards a. clergyman's stipend. A motion to this effect was proposed, seconded, and carried, and a number of ladies agreed to act a* canvassers. This being all the business the meeting concluded.