BISHOP OF LONDON'S TOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 2 September 1926, Page 11

BISHOP OF LONDON'S TOUR.

TO INQUIRE INTO SETTLEMENT. IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. {From Onr Own Correspondent.) LONDON, July 30. The Bishop of London, with his private chaplain, the Rev. H. C. Thomas, and Mr. Ormond Blyth, left yesterday on a tour round the world, extending over nine months. The bishop, interviewed as to his tour, said: "It really originated in an invitation from the bishops of the American Church asking mc to lecture to young men at the Universities in the States. Subsequently other invitations came along involving this very extended journey. "Wβ sail from Liverpool on the s.s. Metagama, and are due in Quebec on Friday. August 6. I have a series of engagements throughout Canada and British Columbia, following which I shall he speaking at various centres throughout the United States till November 13. when I leave San Francisco via Honolulu for Japan. * "There I have a considerable number of engagements in the principal cities. I then pass on to Korea, and hence to China. My engagements in that great country include visits to Tientsin, Peking, Shanghai and Hongkong. I arrive in Singapore on January 6, and I am visiting various centres in the Federated Malay States. "During the latter part of my tour — from February 5 till April 4, I have to be in Australia and New Zealand, which will he one of the most interesting and important parts of my journeyingß. I shall be doing work there on behalf of the Church in Australia and New Zealand. I am also very anxious to havp an opportunity of seeing the work of the Church of England Council of Empire Settlements. "That scheme, which I broug-ht before the Church Assembly, and which was carried through, is to enable our Church to find suitable emigrants in this country for settlement in Australia and New Zealand, and also to make arrangements for finding the right openings for them when they arrive in those Dominions, and to see that they get a good homely welcome. Although the scheme has only been in existence about a year, already 500 families have been settled in this way. and if our resources were greater we could very greatly extend this good work. "On my way home I am spending a week in Ceylon, and hope to arrive back in London on May 7, after completing a tour round the world. It is a long journey, but I have received such warm and pressing invitations to undertake it, that I feel it is my duty to go, and I hope I shall be able to fulfil the hopes of those who are inviting mc and be able to carry out the work I have so much at heart." When first the tour was planned the bishop proposed to travel without hie chaplain, but it is so comprehensive a tour it was felt that the chaplain should go as well, so as to relieve Dr. Ingram of some of his many duties. It should be added that Mr. Blyth, who accompanies the bishop, is a cousin of Lord Blyth, who has taken so much interest m Dominion affairs, and an active member of the R.C.I. Mr. Blyth has been a close friends of the bishop for some veare. Mr. Blyth ia a many-sided man. He is president of the society that looks after the blind workers of Tottenham Court Road. He is an official visitor to the prisons. He is president, too, of the roller skating club that keens that form of athleticism going at Holland Park. The bishop is takinsr his golf eltihs and his tennis recquet. When he visits the President of the United States at Washington he will wear ceremonial dress. It will be the only occasion on which he will need to wear it. But as he has promised to preach several sermons, his hood and hie clerical garments have alsc to form part of his luggage.