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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 21 October 1915, Page 4

"At the present time I cannot permit tho clergy tr» serve in any other capacity than that of chaplain, much as somo of ifaem desire to, do *o," j-uid the Bishop of Auckland, Dr A. W. Averill, in his charge to,tho Anglican Synod last week. "It is harder for som» of us to stay behind and carry on die important work at thtt base than it would be to go to the front. lam hopeful that the'spirit of readiness to go to the front' will, by its voflex action, make it easier for me to find men in the f nt.tire who will be willing to go to the bs'ck amd minister in the b'lickblocks." The ■bishop added that, if the Defeneo Department ootild accept them, there •wero many chaplains willing and anxious to go on active service, and that h<* himself would-also f!o to the front if the diocese would allow him.