CHURCH SENSATION
FUNDS SERIOUSLY DEPLETED MILLION AND A QUARTER DOLLARS GONE CHANCELLOR ARRESTED (United Press Assn—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) WINNIPEG, August 27. Funds amounting to a million and a quarter dollars of Church of England diocese of Reuperts Island and St John’s College, have been seriously depleted. This was disclosed on Saturday by the Church heads, who started an ex-■ amination of the hooks, following the arrest, two days ago of John Machray,' Bursar of the University of Manitohial and Chancellor of Rupert Island diocese. 1
Only a quarter of a million of the million and a half dollars of the fund ate intact.
This sum is accredited to the Ecclesiastical province and was not handled by Machray. The remainder of the Church trust funds was divided between the Bishop’s fund and St John’s College fund. St John’s cemetery fund has fifien impaired to an alarming extent. The clergymen’s retirement fund is also seriously depleted.
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Inangahua Times, 29 August 1932, Page 3
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154CHURCH SENSATION Inangahua Times, 29 August 1932, Page 3
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