NEW MISSION VESSEL
SIXTH SOUTHERN CROSS. DEDICATION CEREMONY. 'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Oopvricrht, > LONDON, July 26. The Southern Cross VI., equipped as a school and hospital, sails on Friday for Auckland, where the new Bishop of Melanesia, the Rt. Rev. W. Baddeley, will embark. Surrounded by nine bishops and 100 dlergy on the deck of the vessel at Greenwich pier, the Primate dedicated the ship. He spoke bareheaded in a torrent of rain, which quickly drenched his robes.
He described the beautiful whiteuainted ship as a most romantic, and heroic means of extending the Kingdom of God.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 28 July 1932, Page 7
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