CHURCH DISCORD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 11

CHURCH DISCORD.

VESTRY RESIGNS. | TROUBLES AT CAMBRIDGE. DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENT. (By Correspondent.) CAMBRIDGE, this day. For a lengthy period affairs between the vicar, the Eev. G. Gordon Bell, and the officers and some parishioners of St. Andrew's Anglican Church have been far from harmonious. There have been many stormy meetings between the vicar and the vestry, and only recently a stormy meeting of parishioners was held in the parish hall, following the resignation of the church treasurer, Mr. H. D. Dallimore, owing to differences with the vicar over financial procedure. There was a dramatic- development last night, when a meeting of the vestry decided to resign in a body. The vicar's warden was also associated with the decision. The resignations are a protest against the attitude of the vicar in retaining possession of the financial records of the church, despite repeated requests for them to be handed back to the vestry. When the treasurer recently resigned he handed over the books to the vicar, who refuses to hand them back to the vestry until they have been certified by a qualified auditor. Without the records the vestry hold they cannot administer the church, and this is the reason for their resignations.