The General Treasurer, Room 7, Seafield House, Seafield Road, Inverness, IV1 1SJ, acknowledges the following donations with sincere thanks:—
Sustentation Fund: Anon., Skye, £50.
Aged and Infirm, etc., Fund: Anon., Skye, £50.
Organisation Fund: Anon., Skye, £50.
Trinitarian Bible Society: Kyle Congregation, £51; Plockton Congregation, £9.
Foreign Mission Fund: Aberdeen Sabbath School, £163; Dingwall Friends, £137; Miss J. Cox, N.Z., £188.41; Miss J., U.S., $20; Miss M. M., $40; Mr and Mrs Hicklin, $20, all for BINGA trip, per Neil Murray; Mr A. MacK., Stornoway, 300 for Mbuma Mission, per Neil Murray.
Ingwenya: May-Dec. 1986: Inverness Congregation, £731; Miss C. L., Wick, £20; Mrs M., Halkirk, £20; two Friends, £150, £50; Miss A. M., £5; Edinburgh Congregation, two large typewriters and two record players for use of blind pupils; Wick Sabbath School, £16; Friend, Stornoway, per Miss MacA., £60; Toronto Ladies Group, £278 plus one Braille machine.
1987: Lakenheath Sabbath School, £100; Glasgow Sabbath School, £250; Inverness Sabbath School, £250; Inverness Friends, £50, £150 and £100; Mrs S., Falkirk, £100; Mrs S., Wick, £100 and £200; Friend, Dingwall, £50; Mrs T., Edinburgh, £10; per Miss MacA., ZS150 and ZS400; Scottish Friends, £76, £60 and £45; Inverness Congregation, £577; Edinburgh Congregation, per Mrs K. T., £100; Wick Congregation, £300; Anon., London, one Braille Machine; Anon., Vancouver, Can$500; Toronto Ladies and Congregation (including $400 from Anon., Winnipeg) Can. $545 plus two Braille machines; all gifts sent to John Tallach School for use of blind pupils; Edinburgh Congregation, £425 for the needy of the Church in Zimbabwe.
The Treasurers of the following congregations acknowledge with sincere thanks the following donations:—
Breasclete: Anon., £36; Anon., £16, both for General Purposes.
Fort William: Friend, Caol, £10 for Sust. Fund.
Glasgow: Mrs MacK. (two donations) £10; Anon., £8, both for Congr. Fund; M. H. A., £10; Anon., £10; Anon., £10; Math. 6: 3 (two donations) £20; J. C., £20; Anon., £30; Harris Friend, £25, All for Bus Fund; Harris Friend, £25, last two per Rev. D. M.; Anon., £12; J. C., £10, last three for T.B.S.; Anon., £6 for Barnoldswick Cong.; Anon., £4 for African Relief.
Greenock: Friend, £1000 to reduce loan for Greenock Church repairs; Anon., £40 for Trinitarian Bible Society.
Laide: Friend, £30 for Church Electricity; Friend, Aultbea, £20 for work in Communist countries; Mrs Morrison, North Tolsta, £10 for Church Funds.
Portree: Miss C. M., £610 for lighting installation, per W.B.; Anon., £4 for Peace Clinic, Hong Kong; Anon., £10 for Aged Ministers etc. Fund; Anon., £20 for Foreign Mission, last three envelope in plate; Friend, £15 for Sust. Fund, per F. M.
Raasay: Envelope in plate, £10 for Sust. Fund; Friend, Raasay, £10 for Foreign Missions; Friend, Raasay, £20 for Home of Rest, per Rev. J. R. Tallach.
South Harris: For South Harris Free Presbyterian Church, 12th February, 1988, Collection Plate plus £50 donated by the daughters of the late Mr and Mrs Alexander MacLennan, Finsbay, in memory of their beloved parents; Friend, Inverness, £80; Friend, Inverness, £10; Friend, Stornoway, £3; Friend, Stornoway, £5; Friend, Tolsta, £10; Friend, Tolsta, £5; Friend, Tolsta, £5; Friend, Ness, £3, all in Church Plate; Friend, Kintulavig, £100; Friend of the Cause, £50, last two per D. Mackenzie, all for New Church Opening.
Stirling: Friends, Fort William, £10, per Rev. D. J. M.; Friend, Harris, £5, both for Sust. Fund.
Stornoway: Anon. (envelope in plate) £40 for T.B.S.
Strath, Skye: Mrs Logan, Hamilton, Ontario, £20 for Congr. Fund, in memory of a dear friend, Mrs D. Cameron. Anon., £6.25 for Cong. Fund.