COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 227, 24 August 1945, Page 4

COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

VALUE OF WORK STRESSED. (Press Assn.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 24. The value of the New. Zealand National Council of Churches was referred to last night by Rt. Rev. J. S. Moyes, Bishop of Armidale, New South Wales, who arrived in Auckland by air. Bishop Moyes is staying with the Bishop of Auckland and will leave, for the south tomorrow night. As chairman of the Social Questions Committee of the Church of England in Australia, Bishop Moyes was invited by the National Council of Churches to be present at the Dominion Christian Order Conference, which will open in Christchurch on August 28. He will meet the Auckland ministers and clergy under the National Council of Churches in the morning. After spending.-the weekend in Wellington His . Lordship will proceed to Christchurch} where lie will spend about a week. When speaking of the National Council of Churches, Bishop Moyes said New Zealand was far j; ahead of Australia. In the Commonwealth

they had not reached such a stage of unity as New Zealand had, and they had not been able to exercise a similar influence on community life. The New Zealand Churches had already set an example which many in Australia were anxious to follow. “We in Australia have had evidence on a number of occasions during the war that the nation or the Government is muqh more ready to listen to the voice of a combined group of churches rather than a number of voices of single churches,” he said. “I am not over here only for any little bit I might be able to do for the New Zealand cause, but lam hopeful of learning things from this country to strengthen the Australian work.”

Bishop Moves, who was born in Australia, was ordained in 1907, and was a curate at Port Pirie and Lewisham, London. He was subsequently rector of St. Cuthbert’s and St. Paul’s, Port Pirie, and of St. Bartholomew’s, Norwood. He became Bishop of Armidale in 1929. His Lordship was the Australian delegate to the International Conference cn Post-War Reconstruction held at Princeton, U.S.A., in 1943. He is the author of a number of publications.