ANGLICAN SYNOD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15131, 23 October 1912, Page 5

ANGLICAN SYNOD.

PREPARATORY GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

ITS DESIRABILITY AFFIRMED

Thk third day's sitting of the Anglican. Synod of the diocese of Auckland was hold yesterday, Bishop Crossley presiding. The Synod went into committee to consider reports and accounts of various trust*. Considerable attention was given to suggestions brought forward in the St. John's College Trust report and accounts in connection with the Grammar School property in Parnell. The report contended that the establishment of a Church Grammar School upon the Parnell site had, by reason of the change in circumstances, become inexpedient and doomed to failure. The trustees intimated that it was considered that the terms of the trust would not permit them to build a Grammar School upon any property other than that in Parnell covered by the trust. The Supreme Court had, however, jurisdiction to settle a scheme for the administration of the trust if it could be shown that the Parnell site was unsuitable and insufficient, and that a school could not successfully bo established there. In settling such a

scheme, the Court might authorise the rents and profits to be utilised for a school established elsewhere. It was, therefore, advised that an application in this direction should be made to the Supreme Court. Should the Court confirm the opinions expressed the trustees urged that the funds arising from the trust should be devoted tyo the 'establishment of a preparatory Grammar .School, with provision for boarders, to be erected on a site selected from the St. John's College Trust property. The Synod in committee adopted the suggestions, which were afterwards confirmed by the Synod. The General Synod will now be urged to take steps to carry them into effect.

Clerical Pension Fund. Mr. W. J. Speight moved the second reading of his bill to amend the statute relating to the clerical pension fund. He explained that the fund operated throughout the dioceses of Waiapu, Auckland, and Melanesia, and that his proposal was. that every clergyman appointed to a cure should be required to become a contributor. Previously it bad been left to the Bishop interested not to license a clergyman unless ho was associated with the scheme, but this, he felt, had not sufficient force and was not always efficacious. It was provided, however, that in the cm© of a. clergyman who bad already made provision such as that contemplated by the fund, an application setting forth the facts might be made to the Board for exemption from the operation of the l'ale. It was also provided that every parish, before having a clergyman appointed to it, should become associated with the fund. Mr. Speight expressed the hope that the bill would pass as it stood, for an exactly similar bill was being considered by the Synod of the diocese of Waiapu, and uniformity was desired. The bill passed its second reading. _ The bill passed through committee without amendment, and its third reading was made an order of to-day.

The election of the clerical members of the Standing Committee resulted in the return of the Ven. Archdeacon Colder, Canon Mac Murray, the Revs. E. M. Cowie, P. T. Williams, and H. B. Wingfield. General Synod representatives were elected"'* as follows :•—Ven. Archdeacon Hawkins, Canon Mac Murray, the Rev. W. Beatty, and Messrs. C. J. Tunks, J. H. Upton, W. J. Speight, and A. Swarbrick. It was resolved that the boundaries of the parish of Holy Trinity, Devonport, bo from the Devonport Wharf by the Auckland Harbour and the coastline to the southern boundary of lot 15, thence by that boundary to the . Lake-Devonport Road, thence "by that road to a road between lots 14 and 17, thence by that road to its junction with the Auckland Harbour at Shoal Bay. thence by the coastline of the Auckland Harbour to the Devonport Wharf, the point qi departure. ■• t The committee appointed to. consider the petition of the parishioners that a separate parish, to be called the St. Aldan's parish, should be created within the St. Mark's parish, reported favourably upon the request, which will be dealt with by the Synod to-day. It was resolved that the time had come when the St._ ''John's College trustees should offer suitable blocks of land, cut up in sections, for lease under the Glasgow i system.