STIPENDS OF CLERGY
PROTEST AT INADEQUACY (P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, May 13. “ I do not see how they are existing.” said Bishop Cherrington, of Waikato. referring at a meeting of the Taranaki Archdeaconry Board in New Plymouth to the payment of inadequate stipends to clergymen. A man earning £6 a week working on the roads was given a 5 per cent, increase, he said, but the clergy were still getting only £3OO a year, as they had been before any of the increases came in. ‘‘l do not know how any man can support a wife and family on £3OO a year,” he said. “Such a payment is ; disgraceful.” There were some workers who had their national and sdcial security taxes paid for them by their employers, but he had yet to hear of any vestry that had offered to do this for its vicar.
Several delegates expressed the hope that their parishes would increase their efforts, and agreement with the bishop’s remarks about stipends was also expressed. One delegate said it had been suggested that the clergy should form a union so that they might uphold their rights.—(Laughter.)
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24915, 14 May 1942, Page 2
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