WAIKATO DIOCESE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 164, 1 October 1927, Page 13

WAIKATO DIOCESE

PROGRESS OF WORK (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. Work in the Waikato diocese is dealt with fully in the latest issue of the “Diocesan Magazine.’ The engagements of Bishop Cherrington for the month are as follow; October 1 to 5, Christchurch (preach) ; October 9, cathedra] (preach).; October 10 to 12, New Plymouth (standing committee); October 23, Ohaupo (confirmation) ; October 23, Cambridge (confirmation); October 30, Paeroa (confirmation). The diocese has been concentrating its energies, since the days of its constitution, on putting its own affairs on a stable footing, and its offerings for the Board of Missions did not nearly reach the total for which it was assesesd. The diocese was asked to subscribe £1,300. Excluding Maori mission proceeds, it only gave £639 10s 7d, Hamilton’s contribution being £6 0s Bd. This year the quota allocated to the diocese is £I,OSO. Hamilton’s proportion is £136 12s, and Frankton’s £ 50. The Maori mission collections on Sunday, August 7, were not far short of £250, and every pound of that amount above the first £l5O will earn a grant of £ 1 from the H. and W. Williams trust. The suggested plans of the completed Anglican cathedral at Hamilton were discussed by the building committee of the cathedral chapter durng September, and met with general approval. The bishop has appointed the Ven. Archdeacon Evaris as his commissary in New Zealand for general purposes at such time as his lordship may be absent from the diocese.