ARCHDEACON OF AUCKLAND

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 December 1938, Page 11

ARCHDEACON OF AUCKLAND

RETIREMENT FROM OFFICE 24 YEARS' SERVICE l, Hit Hit I IW A'NH’lMtl.,,,l AUCKLAND, 30th December. ' After nearly 24 years’ service as Archdeacon of Auckland, the Ven. G. i Mac Murray will retire from that office to-morrow and will assume the title of archdeacon emeritus. The archdeacon, who was 83 in August, and celebrated his ministerial diamond jubilee on 22nd December, has been a resident of Auckland for 46 years. He was vicar of St. Mary’s Cathedral from 1892 to 1919 and was appointed canon in 1901, archdeacon in 1915, and Vicar-General of the Auckland diocese in 1930. He is the only survivor of six trustees appointed in 1894 to administer the estate of the late Mr James Dilworth. founder of Dilworth School, and has been chairman of the trust for the past 17 years. The new archdeacon of Auckland is the Ven. H. A. Hawkins, who for the past 26 years has been Archdeacon of Waitemata, supervising the district from Helensville to the North Cape. He i; ! to be succeeded in that office by She | Rev. H. T. Steele, vicar of Whangarei. The archdeaconry of Auckland will be divided later into the two undertitles of Auckland and Waitemata, the latter comprising the North Shore parishes and those adjacent to the Auckland side of the harbour. The name of the additional archdeacon required under this arrangement has yet to be announced.