INCOMES OF THE CLERGY.
A pnbHo meeting of the Qaeon Victoria Clergy Fund was hold lately ab the Mantiion House. Tho Lord Mayor, Who presided, said the Zand wub Inaugurated laeb year to relieve tho distress of! many olorgy who were compelled to subsist on L50 and L60 a year. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in moving a resolution of support, stated th»fc thore were 14,000 benefices in this country, and in 6000 casoB tho incomes were under L200 a year. Bub of tho 6000 about 4600 had an aver" { age income of L150, and tho remaining number, about ben per cent of tho whole, L65 a your. Tho Incomes of the olorgy had gradually been going down, which was owing to two causes. In the first place, those who derived their income trom glebes were finding thab they could ivrtgeb their rents. Tho ronto of land h«d gone down nearly 50 per cent, Then, again, the pubtio would taiiati upon having eaaoated and cultured mon, and tho con-
BBqnonOe Warn thab the dlorgy had to spond lugo bums on their education. E»cl Stftnhopo, in ecoonding the roaolation, remirkod that; fcho Queon had sabaorlbod 1000 guineas,
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North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9302, 5 September 1898, Page 3
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195INCOMES OF THE CLERGY. North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9302, 5 September 1898, Page 3
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