THE BISHOP OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13938, 21 December 1908, Page 5

THE BISHOP OF AUCKLAND.

SOME OF HIS FELLOW-TRAVELLERS. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] London*, November 13. The Right Reverend Dr. Ncligan, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, will leave for New Zealand on the 26th inst., accompanied by Mrs. Neligan and the children. Five priests and five lady workers will sail by the same steamer. The following is a list of workers supplied by the Homo Church to the diocese of Auckland since July this year:—The Rev. A. H. Colville, M.A. (Merton College, Oxford) ; the Rev. G. C. Cruickshank, B.A. (Keble College, Oxford); the Rev. E. Flotcher (deacon); the Rev. F. G. Harvie, M.A. (Merton Colloge, Oxford); the Rev. C. W. Howard, M.A. (St. John's College, Oxford); the Rev. G. H. Morse, (vicar of Briston, Norfolk);, the Rev. C. Mortimer-Jones, B.A. (Wadham College, Oxford); the Rev. F. W. Pigott, M.A. (Trinity Colloge, Oxford); the Rev. E. H. Strong, M.A. (St. John's College, Oxford); the Rev. K. W. P. Tcale, M.A. (Emanuel College, Cambridge). The names of all these clergy are borne on the register of the council for servico board, as will also bo borne the names of two more clergy who purpose to sail next year, viz.: The Rev. G. H. East, M.A. (Worcester College, Oxford); the Rev. E. E. S. Forrester, M.A. (Trinity College, Dublin). The lady workers include: Miss Montgomery (Cheltenham), who was for four years working with Miss Knox on the staff of the girls' school in Toronto; Miss Klamborowski (Clewcr), who was on the staff both at Clewcr and at Durham; Miss Gedgo (Ainstoy College, Birmingham), who was on the staff at Queen Margaret's, Scarborough; Miss Southey-Bakcr, a trained nurse from St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Those ladies go out to join the staff of the Girls' Diocesan School. The Order of Divine Compassion has sent out another of its trained workers —Miss Hancock (O.D.C.)—to take the place of Miss Hudson (O.D.C), whose health had broken down, as superintendent of St. Mary's Maternity and Rescuo Homes. The Order has also been- instrumental in finding two other workers for the homes— Nixon (trained maternity nurse), and Miss Johnson (matron). Miss Johnson will leave with the Bishop and party. Yesterday, at the Church House, Westminster, the annual meetings of the Church Penitentiary Association for promoting and aiding the establishment and maintenance of penitentiaries and houses of refuge, wore held. At tho conference for workers, which took placo in the evening, Bishop Ncligan was in the chair, and in tho courso of his remarks he said experience of rescue work in Auckland showed that a great, many of the girls in the St. Mary's Homes were mentally defectiveusing the term scientifically. They had very little, development of wiil, and apparently the intelligence in many rases had not been developed very much. There was another classthe neurotic. In a battle with such sections of the community they had to bo very gentle, and at the same time .firm. He had a holy horror of government by committees. The chief object of a committee was financial, and tho Auckland committee., ho was glad to say, was as near ideal as possible. They had started the work in Auckland with the very host lady the Order could send, and now her health had given way they had another equally good. Their plan was to get the very best trained worker possible, and say: "Now, there is tho work go and do it in the name of the Lord." The committee would not interfere with th© work. The late Mr. Soddon had investigated the work, and said it was the best he knew in the South Seas, and that the lady in charge had forgotten more than any other four people in New Zealand had ever known of tho subject. If a young country could do that sort of work, tho Old Country could do it. (Applause.) Mrs. Neligan also spoke. She said that when she was taken over the homes at Auckland she had not been told asingle surname of any inmate. She had not been told the details of a single case. She did think the committee had rather a sad feeling some-; times that, .they were only concerned with finance. (Laughter.) Sho did not think the Auckland committee was yet satisfied. (Renewed laughter.)