BISHOP'S VISIT

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25289, 24 August 1945, Page 9

BISHOP'S VISIT

UNIFIED CHUBC'HES NEW ZEALAND EXAMPLE The value of the National Council of Churches of New Zealand was retired to last night by the Rt. Rev. •i. S. Moves, Bishop of Armidale, New South Wales, who arrived in Auckland yesterday afternoon by flying-boat. Bishop Moves is staying with the Rt. Rev. W. J. Simkin, Bishop of Auckland, and will leave for the south tonight. As chairman of the social questions committee of the Church of England in Australia, Bishop Moyes was invited by the National Council of Churches t-o be present at the Dominion Christian Order Conference which will open in Christ-church on August 28. He will meet Auckland ministers and clergy under the < National Council of Churches this morning. After spending the weekend in Wellington he will proceed to Christchurch, where he will spend about a week. When speaking of the National Council of Churches, Bishop Moyes said New Zealand was far ahead of Australia. In the Commonwealth they had not reached such a stage of unity as New Zealand had and they had not been able to exercise a similar influence on community life. The New Zealand Churches had already set an example which many in Australia were anxious to follow.

"We in Australia have had evidence on a number of occasions during the war that a nation or a Government is much more ready to listen to the voice of a combined group of Churches, ra,ther than a number of voices of single Churches," he said. "I am not over here only for any little I might be ahle to do for the IS eve Zealojid cause, but I am hopfeul of learning things from this country to strengthen the Australian work."

Bishop Moyes,_ who was born in Australia, was ordained in 1907 and was a curate at Port Pirie and Lewisham. London. He was subsequently rector of St. Cuthbert's and St. Paul's, Port Pirie. and of St.- Bartholomew's, Norwood He became Bishop of Armidale in 1929 He was an Australian delegate to the International Conference on Post-war Reconstruction at Princeton, America, in 194.'?. He is the author of a number of publications. RESTAURANT BUSINESS CLAIM BY PROPRIETOR FLAT OWNERS SUED A claim for £750 general damages by Felix Ernest James, chef and restaurant proprietor (Mr Finlay), against Wellesley Securities, Ltd., proprietors of Hampton Court flats (Mr A. K. Turner), was commenced before Mr Justice Cornish yesterday. Plaintilt" alleged that his business had been seriously prejudiced and he had suffered financial loss by the defendant company allowing noxious fumes and spray to issue from its premises into and over the dining rooms which he previously occupied as a tenant of the defendant company. The defence was a general denial of the allegations. Evidence was given by plaintiff and the hearing was'adjourned until today. POLISH CHILDREN VISIT TO WANGANUI „ (0.C.) WANGANTJI, Thursday More than 200 Polish children, accompanied by six Polish teachers, from the camp at Pahiatua, are visiting Wanganui under an arrangement made between the Polish Hospitality Committee in Wellington and the Wanganui branches of the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. Few of the children, who vary in age from about five to 15 years, speak English, but this appears to have had little effect on their gaiety or relations with their hosts, especially child hosts. Many of the Wanganui hosts have commented on the excellent behaviour and deportment of the visitors. Without exception > the children agree that New Zealand is a fine place and all are grateful for the hospitality shown them. BREACH OF TRUST CLERK COMMITS T.HEFT "You are addicted to gambling and have permitted that curse to rest on you," said Mr Justice Cornish when AJastair Herbert Finlay Atkinson, aged 37, clerk, came up for sentence yesterday on two charges of theft. In a statement, prisoner asked for probation. The Crown Prosecutor, Mr Y. R. Meredith, said he gathered that prisoner still had in his possession £6O which might be used in making restitution. His Honor said the offences had been a grave breach of trust. Prisoner had been earning £lO a week when the offences were committed. He had been virtually mine accountant at Hikurangi and had the confidence of the men working at the mine. About 30 men had entered into an arrangement with prisoner for him to collect and handle their money for payment of their income tax as it. became due. It was a praiseworthy arrangement on the part of the men. and prisoner had broken faith with them. "I should not be doing my duty to the community and to you, who need a sharp lesson, if I did not impose a prison sentence," said His Honor, in sentencing prisoner to two years' reformative detention. CHARGE AGAINST SEAMAN A seaman, Tage Anthony Johnson, aged 52 (Mr Aekins), was charged before Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., vegt«rday, with indecently assaulting a female. Accused pleaded not guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial, bail being allowed.