CANON JAMES STACK.
Private cable advice has b<>en received of the death at Working, England, on Monday of Canon James West Stack. Born in the Waikato in 1835, and educated at St. John's College, Watmate. Bay of Islands, the deceased was connocted with the earliest church mission work in the Dominion from 1859 to 1898. He joined a party of Wefleyan mission aries on their arrival in New Zealand, and he worked with them for about ten year?. He then joined the Church Mission Society, and assisted Bishop Selwyn in the Auckland portion of the diocese. After a stay in England, the deceased entered the service of the Church of England Missionary Society as a lay agent m the Waikato. He became a deacon in 1860, and was ordained priest two years later- He was chaplain of the Maori Mission for the Christchurrh diocese from 1860 to 1884. Then he became incumbent of various parishes in Canterbury, and a canon of the (Christchurch Cathedral in 1894. He left New Zealand in 1898.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17294, 18 October 1919, Page 12
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