NEW CANTERBURY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15514, 22 January 1914, Page 4

NEW CANTERBURY.

SETTLEMENT FOR CANADA.

ENGLISH CHURCH SCHEME.

[FEOH OUB OWN COBHESrON-Dr„\T.]

London, November 26 -| Canterbuby people, and New Zealander* : | generally, will be interested in a scheme'-! of colonisation which is at present being 1 developed, apparently with good hopes of I success, by Mr. E. Wakefield, former!- a ; 1 member of the New Zealand Parliament. 3 2&1 Ws £r efi , eld is a nephew of Edward! Gibbon Wakefield, being the son of the latter brother Felix, who was secretary 1 and chief administrative officer of the association which settled the province of canterbury in 1850. He himself went to New 1 Zealand, and sat for a time in the colonial I parliament For many years past he has! resided m England, taking a keen iSerS 1 m oversea affaire, and especially in New.. Mr. Wakefield says that for some tin* 3 past he has had in his mind a project for establishing in Canada a settlement on i the lmesci Canterbury (New Zealand), and reproducing as many as possible of th« principles of Edward Giboon Wakefield* who probably had a better idea oTwhStii colonies ought to bo than any of his eontemporanes, What induced him to put the scheme into definite &rm wa meetS with a number of men from • BritisD'S Columbia. They formed a good cStf colonist, and were anxious that the Churcn of England in Canada,' which still 'I c£«ms the allegiance of more than half the population of the Dominion, should fflH put on a stronger footing 1 «tiL?S su^ stei " says Mr. Wakefield, i that we could not do better than folio*! the model of the Canterbury settlement " I It is proposed, therefore, to'follow, closelyl on the lines of the Canterbury Associate* thoroughly establishing the CSbSSSS central institution of tie comrfurityf T|| Scheme Outlined. m *£?s¥*% *?> short ' to £ettle a widg % tSSu I ln li m *■*«»««■ Island with § English public school boys and college men, all of whom must be members of the Church of England. - The settlement wul § be called the " Christchurch Settlementl 1 after the name of the metropolitan cath'e- ' jW«^the L Canterbury Settlement and I Christ Church College,. Oxford. It was I thought better to call the colony "ChriS Canterbury which is particularly agw,' ciated m the mind wit* New Zealand. Many Churchmen are takjne an : interest in the project, the leading one . being Br. Pemn, Bishop of Willlsden,who was for 18 years Bishop of Columbiafp the westernmost diocese of Canada. A small > corporation in England will ?: govern the * ho t policy of the settlement, M though there will, necessarily, be a direc- - tor on the settlement. Church" people will' $ be the most important element on the cor- ' poration, but the settlement and fflm activities' will be—like the missionary diocese on 1 the Canadian prairies—un- ? attached to any diocesan organisation in ' its neighbourhood. The promoters wantto be free to choose the very best clergymen for their .pastors, and they feel that tins could not be done if thev surrendered" '. control to any diocese. They intend to "- endow their church and its schools very £ handsomely out of the proceeds of the sale '■■■■ of lands to settlers, but there is no doubt :'■■ that eventually, long after the real work I of the scheme is completed, tus . S wnple organisation will become part of ':■■ the diocese in which it stands and subject to diocesan control. The idea is to ex-'"'.-.-: press the aims of "the Church of England!! I through a fine church, a collegiate school, ,4 and a hostel—a verv complete establish- ' ment under the direction of High." Church -■ clergy. Probably the establishment wil», ,- : nave a dean,-; as Westminster has. and lie ■■' without the diocesan jurisdiction. Thl -' ; *' ; hope is that this freedom will permit the ,0 Settlement to fulfil its object of "making $ the pace' for the Church in Canada, • promoting its influence and leading it in anT-j activity which would possibly be lacking HI under a different organisation. Bv the , ; time that 30,000 or 40,000 persons" have, 1 been settled on Vancouver Island under M the auspices of the scheme, the promoters will be well satisfied to allow ft to fall under the regular jurisdiction and control « the. diocese, for by then it will have done its work. -^;

The Secular Side. ~||| The settlement, for which the sanction/:?! of the Dominion Government is practically >S secured, has been promised a station on ; i« the Esquimalt-Nanaimo railway, which ~j* c M a branch o *,, the Canadian Pacific. TheHl farms will all be small— from 100 top 800 p .aci-ea-in the warm climate i of British Columbia. As stated be- I tore, only church people will be permitted I *La e sect from the association, I and there will be careful precaution 1 against the transfer of the sections lo 1 any but approved transferees. The land .; ; "Sffl,? M . on , Wakefield's plan of the <« «/«£?Tv. - Pnce - I' Canterbury is better 83# 4 han 2®** P art of New Z a son that they made the people pay thoS S^ n V Pn °l for tbeit lan *"» is EL? have iU settled sections all close - together so that the young men may hSJ congenial company, one of the great neccs- ' > sities in new countries. It will not vM Si & avoid emi JPating some at> ', bit™ 2? WOr ? D dasses '- there must laws nf>3 a | eSeld remarks > **• labour i new cSI Pl l vent th « Settlers of «1 new Canterbury from banding together § £ r ow^hlh? UDtMy^toMd^ ti'3 6 .^ kada y difficulties of the »« kf«. 15 be i ? vercome « far as possible ? which" atlVe ¥ ° ■*• model farro ? tie 1 I PW* 1 to establish abobOT some /^^°i?' whei ? the J' will liv»;jg»| and lw& ♦S lter arriviD S » Vancouver: There wTIIS to tteir OWD sec ««* inere will be a co-operative store>a« « St?; ¥* Wakeleld «pS to v: and whU Shortl y t0 ins P<* ti» ■■-': and which has been under eons deration in connection with the 6 <&emeT SIS