INCREASED STIPENDS
(By Telegraph Hihhh Association ) DUNEDIN, This Day. A bill to increase minimum stipends in parishes was read a second time and put through the committee stages" by the Anglican Synod last night. In Otago and Southland the minimum is £300, as Compared with £350 elsewhere. The bill raises the level to £320 where a vicarage is provided and £380 otherwise. Dean said he felt compelled to suggest to the laity never to be deluded into thinking a clergyman received his salary. What provision was made for poor relief? Far too much of it came out of the clergyman's own pocket. Such poor relief and 1 ordinary parochial hospitality were a 1 tremendous drain on resources, particularly for young vicars. Moreover, he would like to say that many laymen ; abused that hospitality. V
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 96, 20 October 1937, Page 4
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134INCREASED STIPENDS Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 96, 20 October 1937, Page 4
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