AUCKLAND SYNOD.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11726, 29 October 1903, Page 6

AUCKLAND SYNOD.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, October 23. The Anglican Diocesan Synod opened today. Bishop Neligan, in his address, stated that he had travelled some 4000 miles in New Zealand since his consecration. The diocese was wholly undermanned, but while they had nothing like enough clergy or,lay readers they had a superabundance of churches and vicarages. Alluding to the unsatisfactory position of clergymen in regard to their stipends, he urged the prime necessity of forming a sustentation fund. The necessity for creating a definite Church opinion was dealt with at length; the Bishop urged the creation of a body of thought, thinking out tho same big things, concerned with the same big interests, animated by the same big motives, eating about the same big ends. The following changes were contemplated: —Reorganisation of the archdiaconal boundaries, the entrusting of Maori work to special men, the appointment of rural deans over manageable areas, the selection as time* went on of heads for women’s and for men’s organisations throughout the diocese. Bishop Neligan spoke in support of the Bible in schools movement, and also urged the desirability of creating centres of spiritual work from which the surrounding country could be worked by men being as a brotherhood.