BISHOP COLLECTS FUNDS

Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1930, Page 6

BISHOP COLLECTS FUNDS

GIFtS FOR WAIKATO DIOCESE

• RT.- REV CHERRINGTON HOME.

TOUR BRINGS £2OOO AND INCOME. > I s ~ - (By Wire—Special to News.) ■ Haniilton, Last FTiglit. Bishop Cherrington, after attending the Lambeth Conference, set about gathering money in England for the Waikato dio.cese. He travelled 13,000 miles by road and preached or lectured on 200 occasions. He' distributed 7000 pamphlets dealing with the work in the diocese. - ' Bishop Cherrington contrasted in his addresses the conditions in' the diocese, With those in England, where the very stonework of the noble' cathedral and churches breathed veneration, and where with beautiful, music and charming settings the whole atmosphere seemed sanctified. His Lordship told of the difficulties of administrating a scattered , diocese like Waikato, an area of 10,500 square miles, with a population of- • 128,000, including 10,000 Maoris. .. Lhe Bishop appealed for £2OOO to wipe off the overdraft of-.the diocese, and £5OO a /ear for five years to enable the diocese to consolidate its position so that more time could be devoted, to spiritual appeal and less worry to administration. ',As & reSult his Lordship to-day placed £l6OO in the. hands of the diocesan treasurer and the bal* - ; ? ance of the £2OOO sought is on the way and should be here early i fl the . x New Year. Bishop Cherrington.has also, received promises of between.' £3OO and £4OO a jrear . towards church exiefisiop in the diocese, the Maori .mission and . the ordination of candidates fund. His Lordship brought back With .him many gifts of sacred vessels and. church linen for use in. poor parishes. Before he left England Bishop Cherripgton set up an organisation.. for the benefit , of tlie dibcese with', the Bishop of Lichfield - as president. Several -New Zealand ejergy wojkifig in England have befen int6tefeifed ‘ in the movement. His LoVdship looks arid fe(sls well and is ready to settle down to hard work immediately. .. - , , ‘ /‘There is naturally no great deal Of eagerness on the part of young ordained clergymen in England to come to New Zealand at ,a time when their services are headed at Home arid, whet* they I are at least certain of their salaries,” remarked the Rt 3 Rev. C. A.. Cfierrington to a reporter. His Lordship said, there however, men ' preparing for the ministry whom he met who were anxious to coins out and help v in the future.