FORTY YEARS IN THE CHURCH

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20961, 15 September 1933, Page 16

FORTY YEARS IN THE CHURCH

DIOCESAN TREASURER AND SECRETARY CANON J. DE B. GALWEY'S RESIGNATION The Eev. Canon J. de B. Galwey, registrar, treasurer, and secretary to the diocese of Christchurch, has communicated to the standing committee of synod his resignation from office. The resignation will take effect early in the new year. Canon Galwey has been diocesan regis', ar .for the last 14 years, and his ti ■■.•ough knowledge of church affairs, particularly in relation to finance, has been invaluable to the diocese. Canon Galwey, who is chaplain to the Bishop of Christchurch and an honorary canon of the Christchurch Cathedral, was appointed diocesan registrar in 1919. He has been 40 years in the service of the church, having been ordained deacon in 1893. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in the University of New Zealand in the same year. In 1896, after three years as curate of suburban north Nelson and tutor at Bishopdale Theological College, Nelson, he was ordained priest, and he was vicar of St. Thomas's. Wellington, in 1896-97. He visited England in the following year, taking up a position as curate of St. George's, Birmingham. After his return to New Zealand in 1900-01 he was organising secretary to the New Zealand Church Missionary Association (now the Church Missionary Society). During the next five years he was vicar of Little River, and for the following three years was vicar of Belfast and Marshland. From 1910 to 1913 he was chaplain of the Cathedral mission districts, and at the same time chaplain of the Chatham Islands, a position which he held for eight years from 1905. In 1913 he went to England again, returning in 1915, when he was appointed vicar of Sumner. He was at Sumner until 1919, and he was then appointed provincial secretary and treasurer. In 1921 he became an honorary canon at the Cathedral, and in 1922 chaplain to the Bishop of Christchurch.