MAORI BISHOP.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 97, 26 April 1928, Page 19

MAORI BISHOP.

Compromise proposal

•®*Sfc*ATE diocese opposed.

' TO SYNOD.

W?' * e ' e f ra Ph. —Own Correspondent.)

f w ELLINGTON, Wednesday. appointment of a Maori assistant r J*°P to w °rk among those of his own ® ~«* < " oceßeß of such bishops as iij *''ling to accept him in that capacJ,. ' recommended by the select com--1 we set up by General Synod to bring llSlo * re P°rt in regard to the Maori

- c ® m,n 'ttee was appointed by s y n °d last week to make some JZrf ndation in . re « ard to the Maori K 5 nnd to bring down a report, tl co ? 1 ™ ittee " states the report, n ! '-I 4 if * r . attention to the wish oi have a bishop of U . con ® ider ß the proposal Maori suffragan to the Arch- •' Ntw Zealand impracticable. It

also regards the resolution passed by the diu«ese of YVaiapu in favour of a pakeha bishop with a Maori suffragan at» unlikely to win acceptance. The plan that commends itself to the committee is that a Maori should lie appointed as assistant-bishop to work among the Maoris in the diocese of such bishops as are willing to accept him in that capacity.

"Such a bishop would have no diocese of his own, nor would he have a diocesan synod, but he would l»e a spiritual link binding together the Maori people. He would be able to understand and help the Maoris in a way 110 pake ha could. This scheme has the disadvantage of not immediately unifying the organisation of the Maori mission, but its cffect would be in the spiritual sphere, and if the plan proves successful, as it is confidently believed that under Divine guidance it will, an outward organisation of some kind would probably follow.*'