NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 20 May 1925, Page 14

NELSON NEWS

ARCHDEACON KEMPTHORNE

RESIGNS

(FHOM OCR OWN CORRESPONDm:)

■J; '„■' ••'. NELSON, 18tL May. : After fifty-one yeara, of faithful sarvice, Archdeacon Kempthorne, of the [Nelson Diocese, has handed, in his resignation to the Bishop of Nelson. The I people of the Nelson province hold Archdeacon Kempthorno in 'the highest : regard and esteem, and -will heartily echo ■ the sentiments expressed by his Lordship Bishop Sadlier •on his acceptance of the archdeacon's resignation The bishop said, in part:—"First of all. I want to say how deeply I have appreciated, your loyalty and Christian-fellow-ship fronythe day on which I jvas elected Bishop up to the present time. Indeed, I should be extremely ungrateful if ■I _ did not express to you my. most junfeigned thanks and* the. assurance of my. continued •.affection- •. arid ;• regard; Piity-one' years 'of continuous: service in the Diocese of' Nelson, is .indeed a noble record; and that service has been char-' acterised by the greatest self-denial, by earnest zeal for the Kingdom of God, arid by the highest ideals of mihistedaL duty. In all this God has Wessed you remarkably, with the cheerful assistance and de-' voted support of Mrs. Kempthorne and your isplendid'.'family.". ' •>■ -. : „. :■■■ ;rThe Neisori 'Provincial Progress ."League is.; " making - a strong-appeal to local bodies and public men to see to it' that Nelson' "is-Vbrthily"'represented at the South Seas Exhibition. In a letter to the Press- on the subject, the president of the league.. (Mr. W. J. Moffatt), who recently visited the Kxhibitjon;;buildings ' .at, ..D.unedin, says : "I was greatly impre'ssert with .the. magnitude of'the' undertaking,- which far .and away surpasses ' any previous ven-ture'of-the kind i^i this country, and redounds to the . credit *of ■. the publicspirited optimists who are handling tho enterprise, and who should receive the enthusiastic support of the whole of the Dominion.. ■. Shall- it>be saia that, while Nelson repressing: its 'claims for. '. tho completion'"of tlie-railway giving through connection;-'■;with, ;,the - West Coast' and right on•'to.lnYercargillj .the same -people are too' jndifff.erit to .'advertise theimportance' of the ' province, and fail' to substantially'suppprt the efforts of those who are: so, strenuously .'working against heavy odds to obtain-justice for Nelson." On Saturday afternoon, near. the end of.a Soccer game on Victory square, a player, A.:;Hurat, of,the Mental/Hospital team;; cpllided with an opposing player, . fellj'/and-' sustained a': severe injury to 'his 'legiV' -He . to; the hos-. pital, where'lt' Hvas found iho. log had been severely, strained. Hurst. was later removed -to^hia . :horiie,.: b:at if' will", be some tim^v;before';.he -will be -able" to get about' vagain.' \\\ ' '.-, ; -; '■..■. "..'