ARCHBISHOP’S TOUR

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1010, 28 June 1930, Page 8

ARCHBISHOP’S TOUR

MANY ENGAGEMENTS At HOME Many important engagements have ; been fufilled by Archbishop and Mrs. I Averill since their arrival in England !on May 10. Landing in Liverpool j after crossing by the Canadian Pacific j route, the visitors were the guests of Archbishop Averill’s sister at Stafford. ; before visiting London, where they were the guests of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Archbishop Averill attended the an--1 *be Missions to Seamen and during June he has fulfilled many preaching engagements, notably at Canterbury, Winchester and Ripon. He was also present at the opening ©1 St. Paul’s Cathedral and the annual meeting of the Melanesian Mission. After a motor tour of Wales, Archi OLsnup ano. -virs. Averill intend seeing ! the Passion Play at Oberammergiu ' and when the Lambeth Conference i concludes the visitors will probably i tour the English lakes, Levon, Cornwall and Scotland, and will leave Engj land at the beginning of October and spend some time in Italy. The Bishop of Melanesia, who is now in England, is carrivng out a number i of invitations to preach on Melanesia. With the Archbishops of New Zealand ! and Brisbane, the Bishop was one of the speakers at the annual meeting of the Melanesian Mission, which was held at Church House, Westminster, on June 24. Sir Ernest Sweet-Escott. a former Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for Western Pacific, presided.