Flying Bishop

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 205, 2 September 1935, Page 10

Flying Bishop

-TRIPLETS BY AEROPLANE” How he was believed by the natives to have “brought triplets to a Greek woman’’ by aeroplane, was uno of the stories told by Bishop Gwynnc, Bishop of Egypt aud the Sudan, at the annual meeting of the Egypt and Sudan Diocesan. Association, held in London recently. “My arrival at El Obcid,” Dishjp Gwynnc explained, "coincided with the arrival of triplets to the wife of a Greek there. As my aeroplane arrived at the same time, there was no doubt that i must have brought them.” Inquiries later revealed that there were “two boys and one girl, all doing ex traordmarily well.” Bishop Cwynne, ackuowiedgeing the I assistance ot the Governor-Generai, J said that he had accomplished much ot [his work by flying. "1 find, in my increasing years, that flying is the best |form, ot transport.” He told of a visit to a tribal chief who had once visited i London. The tribe lived in a nearlyI waterless desert. In London, the chief ; had stayed at Claridgc’s, where the principal thing that had impressed I him had been the bathroom tap.

The Governor-General of the Sudan, Sir Stewart Symes, spoke of the work of the Church of England in the Sudan, and said ho had been struck by the keen personal interest shown by all denominations.

The Rev. E. Gordon Parry, of the Church Missionary Society, Cairo, desj cribcd the work that had been done [in the quarter of Cairo known as “the devil’s university.” It has a population of about 70,0600, conspicuous for the number of people who take drugs. The Bishop of Ripon, Dr. Lunt, said that a special problem had been created by Britons who had stayed m Cairo after the War and had married nonBritish wives. There were about 250 families, most of whom would have to be repatriated.