METHODIST CHURCH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19787, 10 March 1927, Page 5

METHODIST CHURCH

CONFERENCE MATTERS GRANT TO Y.M.C.A. (Fcr Press AUCKLAND, March 9. It was reported yesterday at the Methodist Conference that uno of tne most promlnlug signs In connection with eliureh extension was the increasing numbm* of young men v/ho were beginning to assist In the services. The flnaueial Htntoment of the Homo Mission Church Hxtenalon Department stated that expenditure had totalled £13 ) 39(1, and receipts £11,038, leaving .» debit bulnnco of £1357. Tho estimated Income for 1937 was £11.003, which would leave tin estimated deficiency of £lOOO, The Coiiforonee passed a resolution expreasiug approelution of the services of (he lievi C, IL Bridgman, who ho*, boon oonov.tod with Home Misslo.. wnrk for 30 years, The Rev, E. •f. Olds wns reappointed Tor a further term us assistant superintendent of tho Homo Mission Department, In ft brief address to the Conference Miss L, Hodder, of Palmerston Noris, secretary of tho Young Women’s Bible Class Union, said that 21 camps weeo to bo hold throughout tho Dominion this year, A grant of £lOO was made to tne Y.M.C.A, for its work in military camps, on which it has a deficit of £9O.