MISSION IN AUCKLAND

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 20, 20 December 1932, Page 7

MISSION IN AUCKLAND

STATEMENT BY COMMITTE OF INQUIRY. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 20. Following the hearing of a deputation of which Mr E. C. Cutten, Senior Stipendary Magistrate, of Auckland, was the chief spokeman, the City Council last Thursday reversed its previous decision not to allow the use of tho Town Hall to Mr A. H. Dallimore, an evangelist, for his faith healing services. To-day the joint medical, professional and clerical committee of inquiry which recently (Investigated the faith healing mission, and reported in extremely adverse terms, has issued a statement expressing deep concern that anyone holding the responsible oflice of a senior magistrate should have made a public demonstration to comment on Mr Dallimore’s mission. The committee says it was forced, after a careful and comprehensive survey, to declare the mission to be a danger to the health, sanity and morale of the community. “We submit that in his presentation of the case to the council,” says the committee, “Mr Cutten, by flouting and misrepresenting the considered and unanimous opinion of a representative committee, including University Professors, medical practitioners and ministers of religion, which was also unanimously endorsed by the Auckland Council of Christian Congregations, has forgotten the great traditions of his office. The situation is unprecedented in the city of Auckland. We are reluctantly compelled in the interests of truth and public dignity to make this protest.”