Standing Committee.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIV, Issue 4, 1 October 1923, Page 306

Standing Committee.

A meeting' of the. Standing. Committee was held on Wednesday, September 19th. It was decided that the. parochial assessment (for . Pension Fund) be the same as for last year. It was decided to subsidise the ' ' Church Gazette so that it may be increased m size to 12 pages, beginning with the November . issue. The Commissary reported that he. had written to the General .Secretary of the Board of Missions expressing the decision of this diocese to support the appeal for the Japanese Relief Fund. It was decided to send to each Standing Committee and to the Board cf Missions a copy of the resolution of Synod re .the increase of the pensions, of the Melanesian clergy. With the approval of the late Mrs Gardiner 's executors it was agreed to hand over to the building fund of the new Mission house at Manutuke the sum allocated m her legacy to the Maori Mission. A' loan of £100 was granted to Opotiki to be available when funds are. m hand and. the building of the parish room is. commenced. The Rev. Canon Butterfield and Messrs Turner Williams, . Bull and Kibblewhite were appointed as building committee .. for the Abbotsford Home, to consult, with . the architect re details of. plans, and with authority to call for tenders. . . It was decided to meet a,t 4.30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.