CHURCH IN NEW ZEALAND
"UNFAIR CRITICISMS" REPLY BY DEAN OF DUNEDIN (From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, June 15. What he described as "unfair criticisms of church life in New Zealand" were answered by the Very Rev. G. C. Cruickshank, Dean of Dunedin, when he spoke at a meeting held in the Chapter House, Lincoln, in connection with the annual diocesan festival of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
The Dean said the clergy who were working in New Zealand rather resented the criticisms of English clergy-; men who went out to New Zealand for a few weeks and then returned Home and criticised the church life after so short an acquaintance and on so inadequate a knowledge. He would remind them that Christianity in New Zealand was only 100 years old, and that it had not waited until it was jno per cent, strong In the country before launching out in other direc*
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23857, 11 July 1939, Page 17
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