REPORT OF COMMITTEE SET UP LAST SESSION RE ELECTION OF SYNODSIMEN.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume V, Issue 6, 1 December 1914, Page 13 (Supplement)

REPORT OF COMMITTEE SET UP LAST SESSION RE ELECTION OF SYNODSIMEN.

Members.---ArchdeacQns Williams ancl Ruddock, Rev. Canon Mayne, Messrs. F. W. Williams, J. H. Sheath, and Dr. Henley. Enquiries have been made as to the procedure of assigning the number of lay representatives of the various parishes and parochial districts throughout the Province — it appears that m Dunedin, each Parochial District has one member and each parish, two. In Christchurch each Parish and Parochial District has one member while any Parish or Parochial District with 200 registered 'church members or more is entitled to an extra member. In Auckland Parishes or Parochial Districts with less than 60 registered church members have one member each, under 150, two members, over 150, three members. An examination of the Synod rolls of Christchurch and Auckland discloses the fact that the regulations are not strictly adhered to, m the three remaining Dioceses Wellington, Nelson and Waiapu the number of lay representatives is according to a schedule which is revised from time to time by the Synod, m the case of our own Diocese the provision is made that this revision shall be effected by a resolution which shall have been considered by the Synod m Committee and subsequently passed: — The Committee is of opinion that the regulations m force m this Diocese, are as satisfactory as those m any other Diocese of the Province. The last revision of this Schedule was made at the Second Session of the 17th Synod m the year 1907. On that occasion a Committee was set up to draw up a schedule, which it did, basing its recommendations upon the Church population as disclosed m the previous census, and provided for a total of 33 members. When the resolution was considered m Committee, the numbers for 12 parishes or districts were altered, making a total of 46 lay members. . Since that date the following new districts have been created, Otane, Takapau, Puketapu, Frasertown, Maraekakaho, Matamau. as subdivisions of older Parishes. In each instance the parish or district from which these new districts were formed has not had the number of its representatives altered. For the Committee, F. MAYNE, "• • Chairman. Napier, 25th September, 1914. The Committee recommends that the following be the schedule:— Napier, 4 members; Havelock, 2 members; Hastings, 3 members; Marekakaho, 1 member; Otane, 1 member; Waipawa, 1 member; Waipukurau, 1 member; Takapau, 1 member; Taradale, 1 member; Puketapu, 1 member; Porangahau, 1 member; Gisborne, 3 members; Tauranga, 1 mem-

ber; Dannevirke, 2 members; Matamau, 1 member; Port Ahuriri, 1 member; Eskdale, 1 member; St. Augustine's, 2 members; Ormondville, 1 member; Woodville, 1 member; Wairoa, 1 membqr; Frasertown, 1 member; Opotoki, 1 member; Rotorua, 2 members; Te Puke, 1 member; Whakatane, 1 member; Waipiro, 1 member; Tolaga Bay, 1 member; Waerenga-a-Hika, 1 member; Patutahi, 1 member; Te Karaka, 1 member; Weber, 1 member. Native Church Board Districts — Heretaunga, 1 member; Turanga, 1 member; Tauranga, 1 member. Total 4O members.