NEW BISHOP

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 109, 4 November 1944, Page 8

NEW BISHOP

WAIAPU DIOCESE

DEAN G. C. CRUICKSHANK :P-A. NAPIER, This Day. The Very Rev. George Craig Cruickshank, M.A., Dean of Dunedin since ! 1532, has been appointed Bishop of , Waiapu, to succeed Bishop G. . V.' Gerard, who resigned to take up the post of Senior Chaplain of the Forces in the Pacific.

NAPIER, This Day.

Dean Cruickshank was born at Auckland on October 14, 1882. He was educated in Wellington and at Lausanne, Bebington College, Cheshire, Keble College, Oxford, and Ely Theological College. Ordained deacon at Bishop Auckland, Durham, in 1907, and priest in 1908, he returned to New Zealand in 1909 and became a mission priest in the Auckland Diocese. He was vicar of Whangarei in 1910, and again from

1914 to 1923. From 1916 to 1919 he was a chaplain with the N.Z.E.F., and was wounded on the Somme in 1916. He served as a chaplain at the No. 1 New Zealand General Hospital and with the Canterbury Regiment. In 1923 he became vicar of St. Mark's, Remuera, and in 1932 Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, Dunediri. He was the preacher at Sydney Anzac (sesquicentennial) service in 1938. Dean Cruickshank was married on January 15, 1918, to Miss Agnes Kate Stephenson, daughter of Mr. Edward Stephenson, of Auckland.