CANON OF CATHEDRAL APPOINTED

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22370, 6 April 1938, Page 8

CANON OF CATHEDRAL APPOINTED

Office In Auckland For Rev. W. W. Averill (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, April 5. The appointment of the Rev. W. W. Averill, vicar of All Saints’ parish, Ponsonby, as canon of St. Mary’s Cathedral, was made to-day. The appointment is one of four vested in the standing committee of the diocese, and was made to fill the vacancy created by the death of Canon John Haselden. Mr Averill is a son of Archbishop Averill, and was born in Christchurch and educated at Christ’s College. When the war broke out, he was appointed aide-de-camp to the GovernorGeneral (Lord Liverpool) until he was of age to enlist. He entered camp in 1915, and in October of that year he was posted to the Auckland Mounted Rifles, with which he served throughout the campaign in Sinai and Palestine. For some time he was adjutant of the regiment, and he was promoted to the substantive rank of captain in November, 1917. After the Armistice, Mr Averill managed the Rugby team which represented the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the inter-front tournament in England. On his return to New Zealand in 1919, Mr Averill was for some time on a sheep station, and later he was in business in Auckland. It was while thus engaged that he answered a call to the Church and entered St. John’s Theological College. He graduated B.A. in 1923. In the same year he was ordained deacon and appointed curate at Cambridge. He was made a priest in 1924, and two years later he was appointed vicar of Hauraki Plains. On the retirement of Canon Young in 1927, Mr Averill was appointed vicar of All Saints’, Ponsonby.