WANGANUI PRESBYTERY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17544, 10 April 1919, Page 7

WANGANUI PRESBYTERY.

Tlie WaiigailUi Pi'esbytery met at Martort yesterday. l*he Alodierafcor t Uev. Mr Miller) presided over a large attendance of ministers and elders irom the various districts.

A memori£rt> jninute was adopted l>y the members standinp; — ft fecoi'detl testimony of the long and faithful service of the .lato, IVlr \>rnoii. Iteadmnster of the Palmerston High School. H was pointed out that he Md given a scholarship for a number of years. Valued at about £40 per annum. A motion of sympathy with the Rev Porter in his continued illness was passed. < Reports were received and read, from Gonville, by the Rev t). McKieneie, and by the Rev Cnirney on the Apiti district, whicli district extends about 50 miles through the. bnck-blocks. Bir Fountain submitted a report on the work in and around the Bulls district.

Mr Charteris submitted a report on the FordeJl charge, and the Rev G. \V. Blair spoke in opt,imisiiic terms oit the same subject. Rev Miller, Rev Evans and Mr Wm. Bruce were appointed to arrange for the itinerary in May of the Moderator of the General Assembly. At the close, the Maori Mission Committee met. A plan was submitted for two cottage hospitals, one at Nuhaka, and one in Una's Country. .An a appeal for £2000 for this purpose is to be made.