CHEERY VISITOR.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 49, 28 February 1927, Page 8

CHEERY VISITOR.

BISHOP OF LONDON LANDS. "I MUST GET A GAME RIGHT AWAY." TIRED OF INACTION. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. A distinguished figure in the Anglican world, the Rev. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, landed from the ilakura for a fortnight's visit to New Zealand. "I has*e tried to get here for twenty years," declared this breezy unconventional churchman, who had his clergyman hosts continually smiling while greetings and preliminary arrangements were under way. With one hand on the shoulder of Bishop Sprott, of Wellington, and the other on the shoulder of your correspondent the Bishop of London brought the little group close together and confided: '"I was elected Bishop of Wellington 32 years ago, although I didn't know I was. If I had accepted it this bishop would not have been here. I was head of an Oxford House at the time, having just built a beautiful building costing fifteen thousand, so I would not have left it J to be Archbishop of Canterbury." The bishop said that Lord Jellicoe is his great friend, and had told him that New Zealand was a lovely place, so he had come to thoroughly enjoy himself— "And I must catch a rainbow trout before I go." There was hearty laughter in the clerical group. "I'm fed up of lack of exercise and must get a game of tennis or golf right away," declared Bishop Ingram. "What is your handicap, my Lord?" inquired a leading New Zealand Anglican. "Oh, two!" responded the Bishop, Then, as an afterthought, as if a bishop must be truthful even in golf, he confessed his handicap at fourteen. A Press photographer found the bishop friendly, for he said he was used to it, "But see that all the pillars of the Church are in the picture," he said, and promptly this cheery visitor arranged a suitable front row, isolating himself momentarily with your correspondent. The bishop undertook to answer one serious -question, and was asked to speak on immigration, one of the main subjects on which he intends to talk in New Zealand. "This country needs population, we will send the people and it is for you people to settle them. You must fit them in. This has to be done carefully so as not to increase unemployment, but you really need increased population—Australia still more so."