ANGLICAN WOMEN PREACHERS

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26127, 1 June 1950, Page 5

ANGLICAN WOMEN PREACHERS

YORK CONVOCATION’S APPROVAL LONDON, May 3'; The Lower House of the Convoca

tion of York has decided that Church of England deaconesses, who now , preach only at women’s or children's; : services, may give sermons at morn- i ing and evening services with mixed I congregations. Archdeacon G. F. Townley, of York, said that women preachers would he p to overcome the shortage of priest? He explained later: “The won.en will have the same status as men -lay readers. They will be able to a«e morning and evening services’ and ; baptisms, but not Holy Communion, marriage services or funerals. The proposal to allow women preach- , ers was made four years ago. It was approved by the Upper House c.-f Con- ■ vocation, but only now has th* Lower House accepted it

the New Zealand Government has maintained a flight of Dakota aircraft at Singapore at the disposal of the Air Officer Commanding in Chief. Far Eastern Command." he' said. “As I said yesterday,” continued MrMenzies. “events in the Malayan Peninsula are of vital concern to 'the security of this country. The Government is in full accord with the statement made in this House by Mr Chjfley, then Prime Minister on June 19. 1946. after his return from a conference of Prime Ministers in London. He said then he had told the conference that the people of Australia realised that Australia must in future make a larger contribution towards the defence of the British Commonwealth and that this could best be done in the Pacific by agreement between the United Kingdom and Australia and New and. thereafter., with th” United States and other nations having possessions in the area. “I a’so express complete agreement with the decision taben by the previous Government in Mav. 1948. au horise strategic plannin - on an official level through Australian defence machinery in conjunction ■<”i + h representatives o p the Unff.ed Kingdom and New Zealand for the regional de ence of the South-west Pacific area. “The winnimz of the cold war in Malaya is of vital importance to the? securitv of Australia. This is not becauso we de.-ire war but peace cannot be soured bv the avo : dmne resnnnsibilities or the denial of realities ”