UNDERPAID CLERGY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13424, 11 July 1911, Page 2

UNDERPAID CLERGY.

STARVATION WAGES.

Campaign for Better Stipends. LONDON, July 7. The Bishop of Manchester, the Eight Rev. Dr Knox, is leading the campaign in support of the demand for bettor stipends for the clergy. Dr Knox declares that it is the painful truth that many of the clergy arc paid only a starvation rate, their stipend being as low as the wages of a casual labourer. Many others, asserts the Bishop, ax'e receiving salaries that are not £SO above those they were paid on leaving college ■lO years ago.

Dr Knox proposes that a clergyman’s stipend should be <£2oo after 10 years’, and £2bo after 15 years’ service, and that on retiring at 65 he should he granted an allowance of £2OO.