ANGLICAN PRIMACY

Evening Star, Issue 17958, 3 May 1922, Page 2

ANGLICAN PRIMACY

CENTRALISATION' DEFEATED. Tho proposal to centralise tho Anglican Primacy in Wellington came before the Svnod at Auckland last evening. 'The Primate moved tho'second reading of tho Bill. Ho said he was not altogether satisfied with tho conditions of the Bill, and was doubtful whether it would work properly. The feeling at present was reflected in tho decisions of tho diocesan synods, three of which had accepted and three of which had rejected the principle. In these circiuiislanceo ho would not press tho Bill. Jlr H. D. Andrews, Christchurch, opposed the Bill. 110 particularly criticised tho proposal to deprive the General Synod of any' voice iu the election. There were many advantages iu the General Synod moving from place to place, one of which was that churchmen had opportunities to meet and exchange views with their colleagues in other dioccsc-ft. Archdeacon (4. MncMurray said that in 1863, when the Primacy was in Auckland, the. then political capital of Now Zealand, Bishop Sehvyn said it was not expedient that tho seat of Primacy should he at tho sent, of Government. Bishop Sadlier supported the Bill on the ground that it made for efficiency in the work of tho Church. ' It was strongly supported on similar trroumk by Archdeacon Johnson, of Wellington. Tho Bill was lost by one vote on tho division.