NEW BISHOP OF WAIAPU

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

NEW BISHOP OF WAIAPU

DEAN CRUICKSHANK ’ APPOINTED (P.A.) NAPIER, November 4. The Very Rev. George Craig Cruickshank, M.A., of Dunedin, has been appointed Bishop of Waiapu in succession to Bishop G. V. Gerard, who . has resigned to take up the post of Senior Chaplain to the Forces in the Pacific. Dean Cruickshank has been Dean of Dunedin since 1932.

Dean Cruickshank came to Dunedin as the dean of the cathedral and vicar of the cathedral district. During his term he won the warm affection and esteem of members both of his own communion and of other churches. He is not likely actually to be leaving Dunedin immediately. A similar invitation was offered Dean Cruickshank from Waiapu six years ago, but he felt it his duty then to remain at St. Paul’s.

Dean Cruickshank was educated at Auckland, Wellington, Lausanne and Oxford. He took post-graduate training at Ely Theological College and was ordained deacon in 1907 and priest in 1908 by the Bishop of Durham. After a short period of home mission work in Taranaki he was appointed vicar of Whangarei in 1910, St. Mark’s, Remuera, in 1923 and St. Paul’s Cathedral district, Dunedin, in 1932. During the First World War he served as a chaplain with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and was wounded in the Battle of the Somme in 1916.