ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17949, 29 November 1932, Page 7

ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND

BISHOP OF MELANESIA

DISTINGUISHED WAR RECORD (Per Press' Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. The Bishop-Elect of Melanesia, the Ut. Rev. Walter. Hubert, Baddeley, arrived at Auckland from Vancouver by the Aorangi, accompanied by the Rev. R. E. Tempest, warden of the Mission Training College at Siota, who is returning from furlough in England Bishop Baddeley, who is to he consecrated on Wednesday in St. Mary s Cathedral, was met on the wharl by Archbishop Averill, Bishop West-Wat-son, of Christchurch, and' a number of the Auckland clergy and representatives of the finance board of (lie Melanesian

Mission. He will be the guest of Archbishop and Mrs. Averill at Bisliopscourt until after the, consecration. “This is the first time I, have been out of Europe,” said Bishop Baddeley, in an interview on tlm Aorangi. “SinceI was ordained, all my work has been in Yorkshire, in the neighborhood of Leeds and Middlosboroiigh. Naturally. 1 feel very keenly the responsibility of taking up new work' on the other side of the world in succession to such men as Sehvyn, Paterson and Wilson.” This bishop-elect is a comparatively young man. lie has a distinguished record as n combatant officer in the Great. War, having enlisted in the ranks and ultimately attaining flie rank of colonel. Me was awarded the Military Gross and a bar to the Cross, and the Distinguished Service Order in 1018.