ARCHDEACON CALDER DEAD

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1923, Page 7

ARCHDEACON CALDER DEAD

RECORD OF GOOD SERVICE,

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AUCKLAND, This Day. Archdeacon Calder died yesterday. The work of the late Archdeacon, who resigned from the charge of All Saints Parish, Ponsonby. in 1918, extended over 43 years, and his connection with All Saints over 36 years, this, in the one exception, constituting a record of service in Auckland Anglican churches. " Ine only minister who exceeded this term is the late Canon Nelson, 'whbVwa&V* m charge of St. Paul's Parish for 38 years. During the time Archdeacon Calder was in charge of AIL Saints" the population of the parish doubled: The late Archdeacon had held only two other charges in his long residence in " Mew Zealand, officiating as vicar at Hamilton from 1875 until 1881, when he exchanged parishes with Rev. V. Lush, of Thames. He remained at Thames until 1883, when he canie to - Auckland. Archdeacon Calder, who ■■■• was born at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, ' left England in> the onrly seventies, and.,-.-. went to Honolulu, where he took charge . of the Wailua district as episcopal mis- 1 sionary. He remained at Honolulu for ' two years under Bishop Willis. In ' 1901 he was appointed Archdeacon-:-of Auckland, which po.sitiou he; was compelled to resign in 1915 owing to the strain of the work. On several occasions he had acted as president of the Anglican Synod, following the resignation of the bishop of the diocese. "The late Archdeacon's work had by no means been confined to the duties of the parish and the diocese; for many years he acted as chaplain to the volunteer lorces. He held a -long service medal t i Qn? ears> connection with- the forces; In 1896 he was appointed Commissary of the Diocese of Melanesia,; and 'Jwas nrst editor of the Southern Cross log retaining this position for ten years, and he also acted as Commissary for the Diocese of Auckland from 1901 nntil 1916. The late Archdeacon was in his seventy-fifth year. He leaves a widow and two sons (the Eev. Jasper ' Calder, Anglican City Missionary, and .Mr. Basil Calder). . ""'