MAORI DIOCESE ACT.
SELECTION OF BISHOP. WELLINGTON, December 14. The Ao Te Roa Maori Diocese Act, which was passed by a special session of the General Synod of the Church of England yesterday, creates a Maori diocese, and the Diocesan Synod Act requires the bishops of the province to meet the Maori Synod with a view to arranging for the appointment of a bishop to the newly-formed diocese. The Act also provides that after the discussion the bishops shall nominate not more than three persons, approved of by the conference, one of whom must be chosen by the Maori Synod. Archbishop Aver ill stated to-day that the bishops of Wellington, Waiapu, and Dunedin, and himself as archbishop duly met last evening. The Maori Synod thought it wiser to postpone the. conference until such time as they had been able to place all matters, especially those referred to by the bishops, before the Maori people. Therefore, it was decided that the conference should reassemble at a later (lute, probably In April at Hamilton, when the bishops of the province will be again gathered together for the consecration of tho Bishop of Waikato. It is understood that up to the present time no names have been mentioned ns having been nominated for the office of bishop of the new Maori diocese.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3743, 8 December 1925, Page 23
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