PAY OF CLERGYMEN.
New Zealand is not the only part of the world in •which public attention has been called to the utter inadequacy of the pay of the greater portion of our clergymen. Canon Peter Green, of Salford, in declining the Bishopric of Lincoln, said:—"A carter, with his 57s Gd, is comparatively better paid than the average curate. I have known cases of clergy who have found it necessary to rely on a whip'round among their friends in order to pay their rates, and others who have, been compelled to sell furniture to meet tho cost of burying a lost child. The total number of parishes in England where the income is under £250 is 5860, whilo 3275 are below £2OO. The poorest livings are those under private patronage, and for these clergy there appears to bo little hope of improvement. A captain in the Army, who i 3 in receipt of about £SOO a year, and is extremely anxious to return to his work in the Church, does not see how he can possibly do so when the only offers he can get are not more than £IBO to £2OO per annum. .It is high time the laity knew something of the poorer clergy's troubles."
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Wairarapa Age, 22 December 1919, Page 4
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207PAY OF CLERGYMEN. Wairarapa Age, 22 December 1919, Page 4
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