NEW DIOCESAN POST

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28619, 23 June 1958, Page 12

NEW DIOCESAN POST

Director For S Education The appointment by the Diocesan Youth Council of Mr Alexander Maccoll. as director of religious education in the Diocese of Christchurch, was announced on Saturday by the vicar-genera (the Very Rev. Martin Sullivan) It is hoped that Mr Maccoll will take up his duties towards the end of the year. At present he is physics master on the staff of Christ’s College. He is a graduate of the University of Edin. burgh and came to New Zealand to take up his present position in 1950. His wife is the daugh. ter of Mr G. H. Battersby, engineej* manager of the Municipal Electricity Department. “This is an entirely new position and Mr Maccoll will be responsible for the planning co-ordination and execution of aS phases of religious education?

Dean Sullivan said. “He will not be confined to work among Sunday schools or Bibite classes; but will direct the work among, adults especially. This is a serious attempt to come to grips with the whole problem of education within the church. It is planned shortly to appoint an assistant, who will be directly concerned with the work in Sunday schools.” Mr Maccoll will leave today, in company with the Ven. E. A. . ’ Gowing (deputy-chairman of the Diocesan Youth Council) to attend a church and group life ■ work laboratory, to be held in . Melbourne from June 23 to July 5. It is organised by the General Board of Religious Education of Australia. A team of specialist! from abroad, led by the Rev. Dr. David Hunter, director of the department of education for Episcopal Church of the United States (a department whidh has specialised in adult education), will give lectures and conduct practical experiments.

MEAT PRODUCERS’ BOARD

Three Nominations: Two Vacancies Three nominations have been received for the two vacancies for producers’ representatives on the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board. They are Mr F. C. Johnstone (sitting member), Waitetuna; Sir Walter W. Mulholland (sitting member). Darfield; and Mr C. A. Straka. Mount Roskill. The election will take place on August 28. Nominations for delegates to the electoral committee close at the board’s office at noon on June 27 and a postal ballot will then be conducted amongst the farmers « in the districts where the nomin- . ations are in excess of the number of delegates required.

Shot Put And Discus Throws

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. June 32. L. R. Mills, the national shot and discus record titleholder, put the shot six inches and a half past hie New Zealand record figure of Mft 3in, and threw the discus six feet further than his record of 160 ft at Papakura military camp today. The meeting, put on by the camp authorities for the benefit of Empire Gamsa competitors in the Auckland district, was unofficial, and no records can be recognised.

Bradley Cup Bowls.—Springston South beat Somerfleld in tht final of the Bradley Cup indoor bowling tournament at the weekend.