THE NORWICH DECISION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 25 June 1912, Page 5

THE NORWICH DECISION.

CHURCH LAW VERSUS STATE

LAW.

BY CABLE-PEESS * SSOC* ATION—COPYRIGHT

LONDON, June 24

Lord Halifax, in a letter to the Times, referring to the- Norwich case, argues that if under State law a clergyman was no longer able to refuse the communion to violators of church law, it becomes questionable whether the church possesses any principles which it is entitled to maintain and enforce en its own members.