LONDON CHURCHES
DISPOSAL BILL REJECTED [Austiahan and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November 26. In the House of Commons, Lord Hugh Cecil, in moving that the House should direct that the Union of Benefices and Disposal of Churches Bill be presented for Royal assent, explained that the measure authorised the sale of sites of certain London churches. Owing to the loss of the Sunday population there were now 47 parishes for 12,000 resident inhabitants. Nothing would be done without careful inquiry, but if the parishes in the city were reduced in number, the funds could be assigned to other churches in the diocese of London. The Bill would place a difficult matter in the hands of a commission in full touch with moderate national public opinion. Sir T. Vansittart Bowater, former Lord Mayor of London, moved! the rejection of tiie Bill, urging that the object of tho measure was to pull down great ancient churches in the city to get monev to spend elsewhere. Lord Cecil’s motion was rejected by 124 votes to 27.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16202, 27 November 1926, Page 5
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