DAIRY PRODUCE REV. MURRAY CASE ECHO

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1932, Page 9

DAIRY PRODUCE

REV. MURRAY CASE ECHO

NEW SHIPPING CONTRACT. CASE FOR WANGANUI’S PORT. Prompt steps to safeguard the interests of the port of Wanganui in regard to the shipment of dairy produce have been taken by the. Wanganui Harbour Board in view of the fact that a new shipping contract with overseas shipping companies is pending. Representatives of the two export boards (dairy and meat) will probably leave for Britain in March to sign the new agreement. Mr. W. A. loms, chairman of the Dairy Export Control Board, visited Wanganui some days ago. The facilities at the port Were explained to him and the various circumstances affecting the shipping contract gone into. Later, a deputation of board members waited on the Dairy Board in Wellington.

“We received a very attentive hearing,” said the chairman (Mr. J. T. Hogan) yesterday, “but more than that we cannot say. The Dairy Board has promised full consideration of the matter and that is more than we had last time. The first' we knew that a contract was signed on the last occasion was when certain dairy factories were told they could not Ship through Wanganui. I hope that,- having heard our case, the Dairy Board will protect the suppliers of factories,'in particular, and, of course, the Harbour Board, which has so much money sunk in the port.”- ■ ' A letter was received from the Dairy Board expressing appreciation of the Harbour Board having placed-before it full details of shipping at the port, aridassuring the board that careful consideration would be given to the representations made. No definite reply could be sent in the meantime, as negotiations in connection with the new freight contract had not commenced, but the harbour’s representations would;. not be overlooked, J

DIFFERENCE WITH CHURCH DISAGREEMENT OVER BAPTISM. CLAIM FOR HIS REINSTATEMENT. APPLICATION FROM UNITED STATES By Teleeraph.-—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. An echo of the case of the Rev. A. A. Murray, which aroused widespread discussion in Presbyterian circles 12 or 13 years ago, was heard in the Auckland Presbytery to-night, » Mr. Murray was for some years the Minister of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church,- but when he expressed views on baptism at variance with those of his church he Was suspended 'in August, 1920, from the ministry by the Auckland Presbytery. Mr. Murray was subsequently instrumental in forming a new church, which he. called the United Evangelical Church. Two years ago Mr. Murray went to the United States, and to-night the Auckland Presbytery had before it correspondence from the Presbytery of Chester, Pennsylvania, . concerning him. The clerk of that presbytery stated that , Mr. Murray had renounced; the views once held by him on baptism and had gone back to the historic Presbyterian position. He was applying for admission to the ministry, and the clerk asked as a matter of courtesy that the Auckland Presbytery should give the Chester Presbytery full authority to deal with Mr. Murray’s application. The . presbytery discussed the matter in committee, and afterwards reported having adopted the following resolution: “The Presbytery of Auckland, having been informed that the Rev. A. A. Mur- - ray is‘prepared to subscribe to the standards of the Presbyterian Church, authorises the Presbytery of Chester to assumejurisdiction. in the case of Mr.' Murray, who was suspended, sine die for some divergence from the views of baptism held by this church, and the Presbytery of Auckland agrees that the Presbytery of Chester may dispose of the case as to its wisdom it may seem best.”