THE HADFIELD COLLEGE AND HOSTEL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 184, 29 April 1908, Page 7

THE HADFIELD COLLEGE AND HOSTEL.

—-« —■ — SUPPLY OF ANGLICAN CLERGY. ' .- jJni .address. to tho parishioners of St. .laul s Church Inst evening, tho Rev T. H. Sprott referred to t!io-Hadfield Memorial, Collego and Hostel, which had been ' erected r.t. Kelhurne, and which was to be opened at 3 o'clock .on .Friday afternoon.' It was for students studying at \ ictoria College, and it-was open to those .who • wore prepared to oboy its .rates. That' the students at a'.university should sharo a common Jifo .• was tho essential elorhent . university education. , ..There were such halls in other cities. , Tho. point' about .which he nan ted to speak was that tho Colleco was to. be an institution for training clergy for tho New Zealand Church. In the past, a good many of tlio clergy had boon secured from England, but that source of supply was'becoming moro restricted every year, and it was now well-nigh impossible to get assistant clergymen from England. ' .The Mother Country's, increasing nobulation required all the men possible, and those who wei.o disposed to go abroad .were drawn more to such fields as India. • It was not desirable that .any more men should be imported than ,was necessary. He was sorry that the Hostel had. not', recoived tho support it deserved and urgently needed, but this failure was not due to any want of liberality on. the part of the Cburchneople, and it could only bo because tho real importance of the object of the institution had not been properly recognised. Tho College needed £500 to complete • tlio contract, and provido furniture, and tho Trustees of the College had asked , that an appeal bo made ■on some near Sunday, and that so much /is might bo abovo tlio averacto, offertory bo dcobiect- The . speaker lioped that ot. I aul s woiild bo ablo to accedo to the request. But tho Collego would recruiro flit-tiler help ni tho way of provision for a warden and for scholarships.-" It was hopdd that an annual scholarship might be provided by the clergy of .tho diocese, to be called the Diocesan Clergy Scholarship, and perhaps this load might- ho followed by the - lay members of the Church. The students would bo required to attind tho V-iVtoria College lectures, while, at least for tho present .teaching in,-theology-would bo given by honorary lecturers chosen 1 from thrv elcr K v in and around, Wellington. . Tho wlwlo matter ivss deserving of consideration.