BISHOP OF MELANESIA
REV. W. H. BADDELEY APPOINTED.
(By Telegraph. Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day.
The bishops of the Anglican province of New Zealand have appointed the Rev. Walter "Hubert Baddeley, D. 5.0., M.C., M.A., vicar of South Bank, Yorkshire, to be Bishop of Melanesia, in succession to the Right Rev. F. M. Molyneuxj who resigned some months ago owing to a serious breakdown in health. Mr Baddeley has accented the appointment, and will sail from England in October. The bishop-elect, who is understood to be a little under 40 years of age, was at Keble College, Oxford, at the outbreak of the Great War. He enlisted as a private, and at the armistice held the rank of -colonel. In 193 7 he received the Military Cross, and in 1918 a bar to the Cross and the Distinguished Service Order.
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Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3202, 12 July 1932, Page 4
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