ALL SAINTS' NEW VICAR.
! SUCCESSOR TO CAKOIT TOUVG. HEV. W. W. A\-EFJLL. -i-' The r.ev. w. W. AverilL son of Ardi.bishop Averill. will succeod the Err. I anon F. W. Young a.s vicar of All Saiats , lonsonhy. This appointment was announecd yesiorday. Canon Yoong, wbow resignation takes effect in October bat : Iwn in charge of tbe parish for the past eight year=. j The new virar was born in Christ* church wben his father was vjc-ar of St. Michael's. He attended Christ's CoQm J Sor several years, where he wa.s captaa lot the senior cricket team in 1913 aat also a member of the first fifteen. l l^e beginning of the Great War Mr. Averill. wno was too yoang for active service, act<-d as aide-de-camp to the Governor-General, the Earl of Lwb* :«001. He entered St. John's Collefft i ramaki. in 1915 and also studied at lie Auckland University O.Ucgc. He later went into camp and left New Zealand "itli tlie Mounted Hifle* of vhe Sevrata luuiforceiuents. From then until the end of the war he served as captain and I adjutant h, Palestine and Egypt, Hβ j toured England in 191S in charge of thf i Dominion military foothall team. On return to Auckland Mr. Arerifl iru at first engaged in business, but latrr resumed his rtudies at Su John's C* Ifgo mid the Auckland University Col-'■<-pe. In 102" he took his of BJL u)d was ordained deacon. The follow* ing year be was ordained io the priest" ho<«J. y,, r ,„,, Vpars j, 0 aciod as nn»tl at ( ambridgo. and 'inrr then has befl 1 vicar oi Hauraki Plains.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 8
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270ALL SAINTS' NEW VICAR. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 8
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