"AS DYING MAN."

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 35, 11 February 1939, Page 13

"AS DYING MAN."

SPIRIT AND COURAGE.

APPRECIATION BY PRIMATE.

"AIX CHRISTIANS GRATEFUL." "It has always struck me as a remarkable tiling that Pope Pius has been able to carry on his work so well, when in the past few months he has been a dying man," said the Primate of New Zealand, Archbishop Averill. this morning, speaking in tribute to the late Pope Pius XI. "It showed remarkable spirit and remarkable courage that he was abK to carry on so much of his work.

"From time to time we would hear that he was gravely ill, and then in a few days we would hear that he was conducting interviews and doing his work again. I would like to pay that tribute, and also to express my sympathy, particularly with the Bishop and his flock in Auckland, and with the Roman Catholic Church generally.

"We all very much appreciate the stand which the Pope has made for peace, and for the conditions that make for peace," he said. "I think, too, that all Christians are grateful to him for the stand he has taken on behalf of the Christian religion in face of what is being taught and said in totalitarian States, and in face of the anti-Christian philosophies of life which arc current at the present day, especially in those totalitarian States."