The Diocese Of Wellington

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28471, 28 December 1957, Page 3

The Diocese Of Wellington

[Reviewed by L.G.W.j From Age to Age. By H. W. Monaghan. Published by the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Wellington. 248 pp. This story of the C .urch of England in the Diocese of Wellington is divided into five parts. The first consists of a review of the missionary period when Henry Williams and Richard Taylor worked among the Maoris ahd Bishop Selwyn established the Constitution of the Church of New Zealand. The second part is hn account of the episcopates of the Bishops of Wellington, Bishops Abraham, Hadfield, Wallis, Sprott, St. Barbe Holland, and the present Archbishop, Dr. Owen. An account of the diocesan organisations occupies the third part, including the Mothers’ Union, the C.E.M.S., layreaders. the social service work, the educational work of the Church, diocesan finance and missionary work. A record of the clergy and the parishes is contained in part four. The book concludes with a fragment of Bishop Hadfield’s journal, the rest of it having been destroyed by the author. The historical parts of this book are very well written and the narrative is full of interest, being told with vigour and lucidity Archdeacon Monaghan has mastered a great mass of material and is to be congratulated on the skill with which he has recorded the story of the Diocese of Wellington.