SOCIETY DIVORCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 7

SOCIETY DIVORCE.

LL. GEORGE'S SON RESPONDENT

LONDON, April 4.

Roberta, the daughter of Sir Robert McAlpine, a prominent public works contractor, has obtained a divorce frojn Major Richard Lloyd George, eldest son of Mr. D. Lloyd George, on the ground of his misconduct with an unknown woman in July last, when he went on a holiday alone.

The parties had been married in 1917, and had two children. The suit was not defended.

ON THE UPGRADE.

CONDITIONS IN SYDNEY.

A CHURCHMAN ON HOLIDAY.

A through passenger by the liner Monterey, which arrived at Auckland from Sydney this morning, is the Rev. James Worboys, who recently resigned from the pastorate of the Newtown Baptist Church after seven years' ministry. Accompanied by his wife, he is to make a four months' tour of the United States and Canada. On his way back to Australia he is to spend some time in New Zealand. '

Shortly before his departure, Mr. Worboys, who represented Australia at the Third Baptist World Alliance Congress held at Stockholm in 1923, was presented with an illuminated address by the Mayor and councillors of Newtown in recognition of the fine work he had carried out among the poor of liis district. He also has with him a letter of introduction from the Premier of New South Wales.

"My work at Newtown took me among the poorest classes, and I suppose that the depression was more severely felt in. that district than anywhere else in Sydney," he said. "Conditions two years ago were pitiful, and on one occasion I saw a number of children at the Newtown Central School collapse from want of food. When it was realised that children were actually starving, a committee was formed and arrangements were made for these children to be provided with a hot meal every day. Today conditions are much improved, and there are very definite signs that things are on the upgrade. There is less unemployment and there is now no need for free meals for children."

In Newtown, said Mr. Worboys, there were several Communist Sunday schoolsTo combat these his church had instituted a series of open-air Sunday schools* and the results had been gratifying. A teacher would merely gather his or her pupils on the footpath. The gathering would attract others, and thus the word of God would me imparted to many who otherwise would never hear it. It was also noticeable that tho open-air teach* ings attracted many adult#.