WORD FROM PRIMATE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 136, 11 June 1934, Page 9

WORD FROM PRIMATE.

AWAITED BY REV. G. G. BELL CAMBRIDGE CHURCH DISPUTE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) CAMBRIDGE, this day. No further developments have been reported in connection with the Anglican Church dispute at Cambridge. The Rev. G. G. licll said in an interview that while he had had certain communications lie had not received any ollicial word from the Primate, his Grace Archbishop Aver-ill, in reply to the protest which he (Mr. Bell) made in calling upon the Primate, as Metropolitan, to restrain the bishop of the diocese from taking the proposed step of relieving him of all church property, including the vicarage, following his action in declaring the living of St. Andrew's vacant. • It will l)c recalled that on May 17 the chancellor of the diocese, Mr. 11. C. M. Norris, of Hamilton, wrote to Mr. 'Bell calling upon him to deliver up possession of the vicarage by June 11. When Mr. Bell was asked yesterday what would happen on the 11th, he replied to the cllect that that remained to be seen.

Asked about tlic communications he had received, Mr. Bell said he did not think any good purpose would be served by revealing their contents at present.