RETIRING HEADMASTER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22142, 22 June 1935, Page 14

RETIRING HEADMASTER

TRIBUTES TO SERVICE THE REV. H. K. ARCHDALL DECISION NOT DUE TO HEALTH About 40 members of the Auckland Clergy Association gathered at luncheon yesterday to bid farewell to the Rev. H. K. Archdall, formerly headmaster of King's College, who is about to leave the Dominion for England. The Rev. J. L. Litt, president of the association, presided, and with him were Archbishop Averill and Archdeacon Mac Murray. The chairman said they were met to honour their guest and to tell him by word and by their presence how deeply they deplored his departure and how mijch they valued all he had been to them. Mr. Archdall had been a great help to them in their parishes, and few preachers were more welcome or acceptable in their pulpits. They had had the benefit of his learning at synod and conferences and meetings of their association, and he had taken a very valuable part in the refresher course. Benefit to Education Archbishop Averill added a testimony to the great help they had received from Mr. Archdall in many ways. His "Manual on Church Doctrino" was extraordinarily valuable: and ho had also done a great work in the formation and the work of the Social Service Council. Since he came to King's College nine years ago the college had gone forward by leaps and bounds. He had rendered an immense service to education in New Zealand by setting forth the truest and highest standards. The archbishop said ho believed there was a position far greater than the one he had occupied here waiting for Mr. Archdall elsewhere where he could use to the full his great gifts. "I want to say quite clearly that my resignation was not due to illhealth," said Mr. Archdall at the close of his speech in acknowledgement.

The Use of Literature

He expressed the hope that the Church in New Zealand would combine to make use of literature in an entirely new way. The provision of an adequate Christian literature simply written was one oi the greatest needs of the present day. All over the world people were talking about 60curity, but the only real question of security had nothing to do with economics. It was a question of Christendom versus the recrudescence of modern barbarism auu crass materialism, which were quite appalling in their inevitable result. The Church had to be different if it was to serve the world. It had to be a teaching Church and, in a new sen.se, a worshipping Church. "There is nothinjz so dull as State socialism,' ' Dean 1 nge had said, and that was what the people had here, said Mr. Archdall. He loved the boys here and thought they were splendid and he felt the general let el of this country was the highest thing under the sun.