In the News

Southland Times, Issue 25513, 6 November 1944, Page 4

In the News

Presbyterian Assembly

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand will meet in Invercargill next year. This decision was reached by the assembly at Hastings on Saturday (P.A.). Vehicles Licensed

The Postmaster-General, Mr Webb, stated yesterday that at August 30 274,617 motor vehicles had been licensed for the current year. This represented an increase of 12,527 or 4.77 per cent over the number at the corresponding date last year. The number of cars licensed 189,571 was an increase of 3303 over last year's figures (P.A.). Driving Licences

If members of the Armed Forces on indefinite leave without pay (that is entitled to wear civilian clothes) wish to drive motor vehicles they will have to obtain driving licences from the local bodies in the usual way. This amendment to the Motor Vehicles Emergency Regulations which has been gazetted will come into force 28 days from last Friday. It clears up some misapprehension on the matter which existed throughout the Dominion. (P.A.) Jubilee and Birthday

Two happy ‘ events celebrated at Mataura on Saturday night were the 60th jubilee of St. Saviour’s Anglican Church and the 83rd birthday' of Mr John Henry, the oldest person at the jubilee banquet and a member of the church for many years. Mr Henry was honoured by the singing of the popular song, “Happy Birthday to You.” The person attending the banquet claiming the longest membership was Mrs J. A. Walker, who was given the key to open the original church by the late Rev. John Hobbs 60 years ago. Tribute to Dr Temple

A resolution expressing the profound loss felt by the death of Dr William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, has been forwarded by the Executive of the National Council of Churches in New Zealand to Geneva, the headquarters of the World Council of Churches. It was Dr Temple, then Archbishop of York, who presided at the great conference in Edinburgh in 1937 on “Faith and Order,” when 414 official delegates representing 122 churches of many communions in 43 countries, decided to set up the machinery which, next year, brought into existence the great union of Christian churches in common work, and in a common search for unity of faith and order. Again it was Dr Temple who in May 1938 at Utrecht in Holland presided over "the gathering of 80 chosen leaders who unanimously agreed to this plan. It was inevitable that Dr Temple should be the first chairman of the World Council of Churches, the natural choice of all the varying communions who knew him as a trusted leader.