ARCHBISHOP AVERILL
FORTHCOMING RETIREMENT AUCKLAND SYNOD'S TRIBUTES (Per United Press Association* AUCKLAND, Oct. 16. Warm and touching tributes to Archbishop Averill were paid when the Auckland Anglican Synod took leave of him to-day. The archbishop will
retire as Bishop of Auckland on March 31. Deep regret that the present official bond between the bishop and his people would soon be broken was expressed. Stressing that he did not want a formal farewell, the alchbishop said that when one spent the better part of a lifetime in a position the best thing was to get away quietly.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23941, 17 October 1939, Page 8
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