WAIKATO DIOCESE

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1928, Page 6

WAIKATO DIOCESE

CATHEDRAL CHAPTER RESIGNS.

(Special to “Star.")

AUCKLAND, August 11.

Sensational developments in the Anglican Church affairs in Hamilton, occurred last evening when at a special meeting of the Chapter of St. Peter’s Cathedral, which was elected at a largely attended meeting of parishioners on April 30, it was - decided to resign.

The Chapter held a meeting on Monday evening, and it was unanimously decided that it should resign, and that owing to existing circumstances, the, parishioners should be given the opportunity of electing a new Chapter, subject to confirmation of a further meeting to be held. When the motion was put at last evening’s meeting, only one member voted against it. Both meetings were attended by a large majority of members.

Since April, the Chapter has held frequent meetings, many lasting until after midnight. The constant variance of the majority of the members, with the views of Dean G. R. Barnett, Chairman of the Chapter, in connection with the services, and the use of vestments, resulted in a deadlock.

A rearrangement of services was announced by the Dean, in his sermons on July 8. He said that with a view to meeting the needs of the people, theer would be sung Eucharist at 11 o’clock, with' a full choir, on ‘the first, third, and fifth Sundays. On the second Sunday, there would be a second celebration at 9.30 a.m„ which would be sung. On that Sunday, Matins would be sung with an adult choir at 11 o’clock. On the fourth Sunday, Matins would be sung followed bj r Holy Communion. With the resignation of the whole of the Chapter, the duty has devolved upon the Dean to convene a general meeting of parishioners, at an early date, to elect a new Chapter. ' ' ELLIOTT MEMORIAL. BASRA, August 10. A gravestone in Aberdeen granite, sculptured with Cobham’s aeroplane, lias been erected over the grave of Arthur Elliott, mechanic, whom a Bedouin shot, while on the Anglo-Aus-tralian flight in 1926. TWO S. AFRICANS KILLED. CAPE TOWN, August 10. A Kimberley diamond buyer, and owner of the first privately owned Moth in South Africa, used for weekly visits to the diamond diggings, left this morning, accompanied by a retired Air Force officer. The plane crashed near Lichtenburg. Both are dead. The machine’s nose hit the earth with ’great violence.