CANON P. JAMES
(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, August 11. In the August ■ number of the Halifax Parish Magazine! there appears a letter from the Vicar-Q ssignate, Canon P. E. James, who, whia2 expressing great regret at breaking! his ties with New Zealand, says tha^t he is very happy in the prospect of c«>ming to Halifax. His happiness is shared by Mrs. James. Accompanied by, the Bishop of Wakefield, Canon JamcvV' recently visited his new parish and rr.U|>t some of its representative leaders. 1 The generous welcome then accorded him 'showed a warm and close parish fellowship, and the new Vicar ceil tainly knew that morning that he v^as "coming home." His father served (the whole of his ministry in the Diocivse of Durham, and most of the life of i^anon James, until he went abroad, vc^s spent in the North of England. "Y\ istly different your great industrial cenjtre will seem from the capital city of t^ew Zealand,1' he writes, "but I will spon feel at home. And I know that y<m will soon make my wife feel at homs\-. She has not seen England yet."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 61, 9 September 1937, Page 9
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187CANON P. JAMES Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 61, 9 September 1937, Page 9
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