PENSIONS FOR THE CLERGY.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. ' London, May 29. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have decided to devote £250,000 ayear to pensions to poor clergymen.
The chief /unction of the Commissioners is to make increased provision out of their common fund (arising from a- readjustment [of cathedral and episcopal revenues) for it-he clergy in necessitous parishes. The annual revenue is about £1,570,000/ of | which £770,000 is used in annual payments to 6000 benefices.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13452, 31 May 1907, Page 5
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