OBJECTION TO VICAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25963, 2 October 1945, Page 5

OBJECTION TO VICAR

APPOINTMENT OPPOSED VESTRY’S UNCOMPROMISING STAND \(P.A.) HAMILTON, Oct. 1. Dissatisfactipn with the system of church government that denies the parishioners of a parochial district the right to be consulted in the choice of vicar was expressed at a special meeting of St. Aidan's vestry at Claudelands last night, when it was reported that a clergyman of whom the vestry did not approve had been appointed to succeed Canon G. A. Crossman, who retires to-day.

The vestry unanimously passed a resolution disapproving of the appointment made by the Board of Nomination, and deciding not to pay a stipend, to deny the appointee the use of the vicarage, not to hand him the keys of the church, and not to take any part in the induction ceremony. The vestry approved of a petition being Dresented to the Board of Nomination asking that the cure be offered to a clergyman from the Wellington Diocese whom it nominated, and reminding the board that St. Aidan’s was established for the purpose of providing a place of worship for those members of the Church of England who favoured the evangelistic school of thought as opposed to the Anglo-Catholic school.