CONSECRATION OF COLOURS
AND DEPOSIT IN ANGLICAN CHURCH • AN ENGLISH ORGANISATION fPsit United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 9. “ If we did not ( accept the good intentions of the members of the Auckland Presbytery we should probably accuse them of being impertinent,” said Mr S. M'Donald, secretary of the New Zealand branch of the Old Contemptibles’ Association in replying to criticism regarding the consecration of the colours and flag of the branch. “ The Anglicans in Auckland as a body had nothing to do with the proposal to hold a ■ consecration ceremony and to deposit the consecrated colours in an Anglican church. The proposal came entirely from my association. A motion dealing with the points under criticism ' was actually moved by a former soldier of the Gordon Highlanders, himself a member of the Presbyterian Church. Our president is a Roman Catholic, and had to obtain special permission from his bishop to attend the ceremony when it was held.” ■ Mr McDonald said that the organisation w’as not a New Zealand one. As former members of the Britisli Army they held that the ceremony should be conducted in a church which was the National Established Church of England.
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Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 14
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194CONSECRATION OF COLOURS Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 14
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