DEAN OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25357, 12 November 1945, Page 4

DEAN OF AUCKLAND

APPOINTMENT MADE ONEHUNGA VICAR CHOSEN The appointment of a successor to the Very Kev. W. Fancourt a.s Dean of Auckland and vicar of St. Mary's ProCathedral, Parnell, was announced yesterday. He is the Rev. Sidney Gething Caul ton, vicar of Onehunga since February, 194?). M r Caul ton will take up his newduties after Dean Fancourt's resignation takes effect at the end of .January. He was offered the cure of St. Mary's as the result of agreement between the Diocesan Board of Nomination and nominators appointed by the parish. At the request of the bishop,

the Rt. Rev. W. J. Simkin, and with the concurrence of the standing committee and Cathdral Chapter which met on Friday, lie has- also accepted appointment as Dean of Auckland. Mr Caulton was born in Derbyshire, and educated at the county school, Derbyshire, and St. Chad's College, University of Durham, where lie graduated 8.A., with second-class honours in theology, in 1922 and M.A. in 1927. He was ordained deacon in 1922 and priest in 1923 by (he Bishop of Liverpool as curate of St. Dunstan's, Edge Hill. In 1929 he joined the Melauesian Mission and was stationed successively at Ugi, San Cristobal and Gela until 1937, when he resigned and came to New Zealand. He was appointed vicar of Whakatane and remained there until he succeeded Archdeapon T. H. C. Partridge at Onehunga in 1943. EELS AND TROUT TAMED TOGETHER IN SAME POOL (0.C.) KEW PLYMOUTH, Saturday Seven years of patient training have rewarded' Mr A. Porter, of Midhirst, with the knowledge that eels and trout can live together in the closest harmony and be tamed to the extent of taking food from his hand without the slightest fear. Mr Porter first began taming the trout in a pool near his home by throwing food to them at regular intervals. Eventually they became accustomed to him and milled about the feeding spot on the water's edge. At first eels were considered a menace to the trout, and Mr Porter set about clearing the pool of them. Many were caught in various ways, but one day while he was feeding the trout he noticed an eel close by. His immediate thought was to catch it. but as it appeared so tame he fed it, too. Regularly afterward the eel joined the trout for food, and Mr Porter stopped all slaughter of eels in the pool. Gradually more eels came to the pool, and for three years now he has been feeding and taming both eels and trout. The trout, with keener eyes than the eels, take the food from his lingers with a swirl of water before the eels are near. He is able to touch and turn the largest of the trout on its .side to display its depth. Eels lying on the pool bottom rise to the surface to take food from the palm of his hand. The eels appeared'more friendly than the trout, in spite of the fact that lie has been taming them for only three years, compared with seven years' work with the trout. To illustrate (lie taiueness_of the eels Mr Porter puts his fingers in the eels' mouths. The eels do not close their jaws, but open them wide and draw away. INDIAN STUDENTS MASSEY COLLEGE ENTRANTS The first three Indian students to attend the Massey Agricultural College arc expected to arrive during the next few weeks. They are men who have already had considerable experience of farming in India and their admission to the college is the result of arrangements made between the Department of Agriculture of the Bengal Government and the college authorities. Each will stay for about two years. One of the men will study dairy .farming; he is a graduate of the Dacca University, India. Another is to be trained on town milk supply treatment and distribution, in addition to butter manufacture, and the third student, who is also a graduate of Dacca University, will study poultry husbandry. It is expected that some Australian students will attend the college next year. Many inquiries concerning the courses and the conditions for admission have been received this year from Australia, England, Kenya,'and, recently, one from Turkey.