ARRIVAL IN WELLINGTON

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 49, 28 February 1927, Page 10

ARRIVAL IN WELLINGTON

EMPIRE MIGRATION

PRAYER BOOK REVISION

The Bishop of London, the .Eight Eev. A. F. Winnington-Ingram, arrived in Wellington by the Makura from Sydney this morning. He was met by the Bishop of Wellington and a number of the local clergy. While in Wellington he will be a guest at Bishopscourt.

The Bishop of London stated to-day that he was in the course of a world tour in fulfilment of a long-standing promise. He was making this tour in order to back up the Christian cause in the' countries he visited; and, secondly, to ' discuss with the authorities and the people the question of Empire migration. Lord Jellicoe is president and he himself is chairman of the Church of England Empire Settlement scheme. "We are . /ing wisely and carefully to get more people of the Old Country to come to Australia and New Zealand. I know there is a certain amount of opposition to migration both in Australia and New Zealand, but I believe that opposition is only due to the migration not being wisely managed. If carefully managed, I think that far more people from Great Britain could be absorbed into the life of both countries. I do not, however, presume to dictate to a country like this how it is to be done. I must leave that to New Zealand; It is natural I think that our own people should be encouraged to come rather than have numbers of foreigners migrating here. It is the Bishop's opinion' that the word emigration has a sort of slur attached to it. It is different with migratiott, which is a moving of people from one part of the Empire to another. It should be as easy for a Briton to move to New Zealand as it is for' a Scotsman to move to England or an Englishman to cross the border into Scotland, or to move from one county of England to another. He would have migration to be regarded as a moving of citizens from one part of the Empire to another, with the feeling that wherever they went within the Empire they would be welcomed and respected as fellow-citizens. THE PRAYER BOOK. . With regard to the revision of the Book of Common Prayer, the Bishop said that the new Prayer Book is to be only permissive, and makes no difference whatever in the balance of doctrines in the Church of England. No one need use it who does not want to. He also pointed out that in America it had been usod for 130 years, ana no one ever dreamt that it was subversive of the Beformation. In the opinion of 34 bishops out of 36 in England the new version would be well adapted to bring peace to the Church at Home, and would enrich the worship of the Church of England.