ANGLICAN GENERAL SYNOD

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 20, 24 January 1913, Page 2

ANGLICAN GENERAL SYNOD

HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONS. (BT TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCUWON.) NELSON, 23rd 'January. At the Anglican General Synod to-day the committee set up to consider a petition from Amuri and Hanmer -parishes for inclusion^ in the Church Diocese reported that it had no recommendation to make. The home and foreign missionary com* mittee reported urging aHl" members of the Church to continue their support of the Melanesian and Maori ' Missions and to extend knowledge of the Church's missionary work throughout the world. It expressed appreciation of Bishop Wilson's devoted labour in the Melanesian field, and sympathy with him in his illness. Bishop. Crossley said a" guarantee fund had been established in conhection with the Marsden centenary celebrations, the following aniounts having been guaranteed: Clergy £184, laity £136.' Motions of condolence and appreciation were adopted in connection with the* deaths of Messrs. f W. H. Quick (Wellington), J. M. Ritchie, and -'Dr. Mocken (Dunedin). Some discussion took place on a motion by Archdeacon Harper regarding the supply of census information, but no decision was reached. ' '• It was decided to ask the Ret, A. H. Purchas, of • Christchurch, to write a history of the Church in New Zealand. _ The Synod went into committee to consider amendments proposed by a special committee -on the ' Church ' of England Trust Bill, that is to come before Parliament. The amendments were all agreed to, and a. commission was set up, consisting of the Bishop of Wellington, Canon Mac Murray, Messrs. ' H. D. Andrews, and T.. F, Martin to consent to amendments in 'the Bill during its consideration by Parliament... > .. On the motion of the Bishop of Mela* nesia, a Bill was passed through its second reading providing that members of the mission in parish orders 1 should elect the bishop .of a missionary diocese. '

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