THE RETIRING PRIMATE
REASON FOR RESIGNATION
The Archbishop of Canterbury lias denied the suggestion that he has resigned on account of recent events in Parliament. He feels that he is no longer fit to carry out duties ot such an onerous, persistent, and exacting sort.
United Press Assn—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, November 4.
The general satisfaction at the conferment by the King of a Barony upon the Archbishop of Canterbury is reflected in yesterday s press comment. Tire honour is obviously intended to ensure tliat after the Archbishop’s retirement this month the country and the House of Lords will still retain bis services as a distinguished statesman of long experience. A national tribute to Dr Davidson is to he paid on his retirement when a fund subscribed from every part of Britain and the Empire is to he handed over to him. hi is successor will be Dr Cosmo Gordon Lang, whose Archbishopric of York is to be filled by Dr Temple, the present Bishop of Manchester. In his farewell sermon at Canterbury Cathedral, -broadcast throughout Britain, the Archbishop likened himself to .Moses, standing on Mount Pisgali and looking back through the anxious years, but he was certain that the people lie loved and led were destined to see greater things than he shared. Moses marked his people’s power and promise under God's guiding hand, and accordingly looked forward hopefully. BISHOP OF LONDON. LONDON November 3. “I am not leaving London,” declared the Bishop of London ill reply to Dean Inge’s suggestion that he exchange sees with the Bishop of Gloucester. He added that all speakers ;>t the Synod expressed a willingness to obey his directions. These were being issued in January. Tiic conviction bv Mr F. K. Hunt. S.M.. of Edward Willorson Warren of aii oil'ence under the Gaming A< t in connection with “the exploitation of scientific totalizator speculation’' was sustained bv Mr Justice Smith at tiie Auckland Supreme Court, aw r.ppoal having been made <n a point of law arising from the sending out of circulars. Applicant's i eaten lion was that the circular related only to totalisator investm uts ami that they were a legal form of investment, His Honour upheld the Magistrate's finding that the intent included intent to induce application for advice not merely to investments on the totalizator, but as to future horse races otherwise than by investment oil the totalisator and the advice was of such
a nature as to necessitate the employment of an agent, contrary to the provision of the Gaming Act.’’
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10985, 7 November 1928, Page 3
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