CLERGY’S STIPENDS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 February 1939, Page 10

CLERGY’S STIPENDS

BOOLING SCHEME IN BRITAIN

LONDON, January 30

Booling of mulowmimts in Church of Engla-ml livings, ami Um provision o': stipends m.-cording to needs, have imw practical politics. A detailed scheme has been worked out bv the Commission on Parochial En-

I-tOwments. . The sc’umm of redistribution eontcmpiai.m-. fh.c assignment of an ”api Picpriiit'.-' income to every benefice: I subject io eonfirnmtimi by a central authority. On the next vacancy in an incumbency after the assignment of lac appropriate income, it is suggested <:.mt any surplus endowment iucoh e wcmkl be carried io central iuud out ol which incomes of beneiic.es below the "appropriate" income would be augmented. I; ;s suggested that all parishes should be classified according to population. Incomes scales would be up to 1.900 parishiom’rs, Cilmi t o £600; 1,0(10 (o 1,00(1 parishioners, £:175 to £<00; 1,000 to 10.000 parishioners. £3-159 io £600; 10,000 and upwards,! £ 12a to £OOO. An “appropriate” in-! come would be settled between these limits. The. report slates; "Wo arc satisfied that the. cost of providing substantial al-owances for the wives of all married clergy would be prohibitive." A memorandum, however, suggests ■ that some scheme of grants in re- I speed of dependent children of the clergy would be financially possible.