NOTE.-Deficit at end of June £102 1s 8d.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XV, Issue 2, 1 August 1924, Page 433

NOTE.-Deficit at end of June £1 02 1 s Bd.

7Che IDipcesan Treasurer is seriously .handicapped : hy ; the/ practice, of pepple of sending contributions ; direct V the Board of ; Missions instead o^ through . their . ;pari§h Churchwarden and. .the Diocesan .Office. .All mission funds should be sent through the local Church S ecret ary . There are two or three collectors for missions who do not do : this. At. the end pf the year the parish balance-sheet shows an insignificant sum as given to missions, because ; the collector has, not allowed the amount of his collection pi" his own donation to be credited through the parish funds. The Diocesan Treasurer from a re-

turn sent him, by Mr Redgrave, discovers that; £303 _16s, illicl if in^ addition; to the £462 3s id -.credited above) has been thus s£nt from this dipcese during the months of April, May and June. It is hard to guess why people will not send their contributions through the proper channel The Board of Missions is trying to arrange' the fhianees of Missions m a business like way. It draws up ,& budget ; of the year's .minimum needs of .each .mission. It .allots a, qupta .to foe X^^hj^epLeji^j^ioGese.. .Each diocese divides this quota among its parishes. If more than this minimum is raised

|he Board is able to iinderi;ake; ! eitra work. ' It is not honest for a Churchman interested m Missions to collect all he can frpm ; all missionary-hearted people :> m, the., parish, -send it . surreptitiously; to the Board, and then at the annual meeting to accuse the parish of want of interest' in Missions because the only amounts shown for that purpose m its balance-sheet are those raised from people he has missed. It is unfair to squeeze a lemon dry and then blame, someone else because he can get very little juice out of it. It is also unfair to the Diocesan Treasurer, who is responsible for raising the Diocesan quota, to send money to the Board through other channels, so that he is unable to tell what progress is being made m raising the quota. ,:of the dibeese.