NEW BISHOP ARRIVES

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 130, 29 November 1932, Page 5

NEW BISHOP ARRIVES

DIOCESE OF MELANESIA

(By Telegraph.—-Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, 28th November.

The • Bishop-elect of Melanesia, the Eev. Walter Hubert Baddeley, arrived at Auckland from. Vancouver by. the Aorangi, accompanied by the Rev. R, E. Tempest, "Warden 'of the Mission: Training College at Siota, who is returning from furlough in England. Mr. Baddeley, who is to be consecrated on Wednesday in. St. Mary's Cathedral, ■was met on the wharf by Archbishop Averill, Bishop West Watson, of Christchurch, and a number of Auckland clergy and representatives of tha finance board of the Melanesian. Mis* sion. He will be the guest of Arch* bishop and Mrs.-- Averill at :Bishops--court until after the consecration. ' "This is the first time I-have beea" out of Europe," said Mr. Baddeley^ia an interview on tho Aorangi. "Sines I was ordained all my work has been in' Yorkshire in ithe neighbourhood of Leeds and Middlesborough. Naturally, I feel very keenly the responsibility of taking.up new work on the other side of tho world in succession to such men as Selwyn, Patterson, and Wilson.".'." The Bishop-elect is a comparatively! young man, being barely 40 years ~o£ age. He has a distinguished record, as a combatant officer in the Great War, having enlisted in the ranks; ultimately attaining the rank of colonel. He was awarded the Military. Cross in 1917, and a bar to the cross arid the Distinguished Service Order in 191 S.

In the report of an appeal to the Transport Appeal Board by the 8.8 Express Service, published in yesterday'^ issue, it was stated that Mr. F. W. Aickin gave evidence ia support o£ the appeal. • This was erroneous. Mr. Aickin, who is law officer to the New Zealand Government Railways, attended under shibpoena issued by the appellant. It was suggested to him on behalf of the appellant that the fact6_in the present appeal were the same as in a previous appeal in which h« appeared as counsel for the Railways D». partment, but Mr. Aickin was! unable, far. reasons stated by him, to agree that t!i« cases were identical. . ;