ANGLICAN CENTENARY APPEAL

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 269, 10 August 1938, Page 15

ANGLICAN CENTENARY APPEAL

Bishop’s Tour Of Diocese

SUM OF £7348 GIVEN IN

TEN PARISHES

The campaign being conducted on behalf of the Wellington diocesan centenary appeal for £200,000 to build a new Wellington Cathedral find £lOO,OOO for the bishop’s fighting fund is meeting with pronounced success. The Bishop of Wellington, lit. Bev. H. St. Barbe Holland, and Canon D. B. Malcolm, secretary of the appeal committee, are at present touring the diocese on behalf of the appeal, and although up to Thursday, of last week only 10 of the. 58 parishes in the diocese had been visited, cash contributions and promises from those parishes total £7348. The total received or promised since the appeal was launched last month amounts approximately to £29,985, to which may be added £27,000 which is available from the old cathedral fund, making a total of £56,985. A greater sum, therefore, has been received in cash and promises already than the amount available from the old cathedra] fund, something which in itself is encouraging, but more'heartening still is the fact that the £29,9b0 has been gVen or promised by a limited number of people—the greater part of it probably by no more than about 100 people. This does not represent the full scope of parish activity, but the response made by leading persons as a lead-off to the general appeal, which, when Bishop Holland and Canon Malcolm have completed their tour and everything is in full swing, promises, on present indications, to be on a splendid scale. Results From Ten Parishes. Of the £7348 contributed or promised by the 10 parishes visited £362 15/- was promised at the meeting of Synod in Wellington last month, so that the net result of- the tour up to last Thursday at Martinborough is that £6985/5/- was promised. Details are as follows: —

Totals .. 58 £3623 £6oBai £7348 •Includes £lOOO previously promised. jFoxton and Shannon constitute one parish.

Wanganui Arrangements.

Canon Malcolm, who returned _ to Wellington on Friday last, is to rejoin Bishop Holland at Marton to-morrow, when the tour of the diocese is to be continued. They will visit Hunterville on Thursday, after which, they will be back in Wellington for about a week to enable his Lordship to attend the meetings of the bishops of the Province of New Zealand. After this week, the tour will be resumed at Wanganui with; a public meeting in the Opera House on Sunday night, August 21. The meeting will take the form of evensong for all the congregations of the Wanganui parishes. At this meeting, in addition to Bishop Holland, the Hon. W. Nash, Minister of Finance, will speak. The mayor of Wanganui, Mr. W. J. Rogers, will preside. Meetings in Taranaki are to follow. It will not be until the middle of September that the Wellington suburban section of the tour will be reached.

Promised Promised People at Synod. on Tour. Total. Ashhurst 5 4iW 4u5 fFoxton 4 45 540 Bulls 3 vO 350 Kiwitea fShannon Greytown Cartel-ton . Masterton 8 6 6 00 •20 424 20 -102 300 2634 655 1445 230 -102 320 306 675 1500 275 Featherston 11 50 •2150 ‘2200 200 Martluborough 3 5i 191J-