ANGLICAN SYNOD

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 22, 20 October 1917, Page 10

ANGLICAN SYNOD

AUCKLAND DIOCESE IN SESSION , g By Tcletranh—Press -Association. Auckland, October 19. The Anglican Synod opened to-day. In the course of his address _ Bishop Averill said that the various trust boards lir.d invested .£12,000 in the recent War Loan. Sixteen clergy from the diocese were on .active service, and it therefore seemed only just that he should now claim exemption for any of the clergy who might be called in the ballot, so that the chaplains' required might be supplied and the work of the diocese maintained. Referring to the proposed new diocese in Taranaki, Bishop Axerill said that, considering the rapidly increasing population of the North! Island and the increasing claims on the Bishops of Auckland and Wellington, .the time seemed ripe for action. ;

Discussing the war, Bishop Averill said that the causes which led up to this international war were but an exaggeration of the causes which led to industrial unrest, and the solution, of the industrial problem would undoubtedly make a real advance in the solution of the international problem. The Church had undoubtedly failed to lend a sympa. thetic ear to the just claims and ospirations of tho great wage-earning class. The comradeship of all classes at the front would, hoped, break down the foolish, artificial distinction between man and man, and develop a new sense of mutual respect when the men returned to civil life.