Standing Committee.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIV, Issue 1, 1 August 1923, Page 287

Standing Committee.

The Standing: Comrnittce. niefc on July 19th. The Bishop .reported that the Rev. Draper,. pf Dannevirke, had been appointed to "succeed the Rev. .0. Gibson as, assistant, eu.ra.to at Hastings, and the Rev. V. Bianehi had been appointed assistant curate at Dannevirkc- Deaconess " Esther Brand has gone to Gisborne to work m the parish: of '-Holy .■ Trinity. • Mr J. P. Willianison, a former member of Standing {Committee for lnany y ears* xvas appointed iff place

of Mr : T. Ellery • who has 1 - resigned.-" ; A sub-committee consisting ofl" the 1 Dean, Archdeacon- Simkin, Messrs.Williamson and-Tm ; rier ■Williams was" appointed, .to consider- and report upon the question 6f fees f or therser* . vices of relieving. .clergy; -;.' ; . The Board .of Missions has i assessed !: the Waiapu Bit>eese ; at ; £2357"' :f 0r: 1923, jjeing £117 more than- its. assessr.: . merit for last year. ./■■;.' - ; ~ . : A sub-committee Avas appointed' to; consider methods for financing . ihe " scheme.' for .rebuilding St.:: Mary's • Home, Burlington road. ' ' " ' " r ' , The scale^qf gnmts for. the GeneralDiocesan Fund towards parochial: districts was ■ carefully, considered.: The committee!.^ decided . not to. apply: this year the rule: that grants . will '.tiW: decreased £5 each year; ,'; . : ';'.■'. * J ~. "'": ... . : The Bishop, reported' the' resigna-. . tion of Mr 3. A. Maclean as member: .of Synod. . ■;•*. ..: '- ■■'. ...-,, . .„ ; . ,: Applications foj loans- were re-" _ceived from, .various - parishes __ ,^ndnearly all. the funds available' ■' yrert alloftef. : . ■'■'„: "~-:" : -