WAIKATO DIOCESE.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18796, 18 November 1932, Page 6

WAIKATO DIOCESE.

— . GATHERING IN LONDON. FATHER TRIBE’S COMMENTS. Waikato Anglicans will be Interested In'an account of the annual meeting of the Waikato Diocesan Association, which was recently held at Church ■House, Westminster, London. Rev. Father R. Tribe, director of the Sacred Mission, Kelham, who visited Hamilton some months ago, presided. Father Tribe gave an account of his experiences in the diocese and in other parts of the Dominion. During the 30 days lie spent there lie lectured 30 times and travelled 2000 miles. A letter was read from the Bishop of Waikato, who said, inter alia:— “ Increasing difficulty is being experienced by many parishes in paying their way. Some have already been forced to let their vicarages and ask for an unmarried priest at three-quarters of the ordinary stipend or less, and as I write there are two- more parishes which think they will have to do the same. Back-blook Parishes. “We hope that our friends will be able to give us £SO toward our grants for back-block parishes before March 31, 1933. We are most grateful to Father Plnchard for having given us £SO a year for the last three years (1932 is our third gift) toward students in training under the bishop. Those who have benelted by this help are all doing well and the help has been worth while. A debt of about £250 remains on the diocesan funds and the bishop has undertaken that that shall be defrayed by the end of March, 1933.” The balance-sheet ■showed that £79 4s had been collected; the balance over from last year was £1 15s 7d, making £BO 19s 7d. After paying for printing, postage, hire of hall, etc., £6O was sent to New Zealand, leaving a balance in hand of £9 4s 7d. “ Behind the Times." Father Tribe gave an account of the King Country and spoke of the Mapris. New Zealand, he said, was right up to date in many ways, with electricity in every house and electric milking machines, but so far as tlier religious life was concerned they were about 30 or 40 years behind the limes. They were a little old-fashioned and there was a complacent sleepiness in tlie community. There was sound godliness at present, but it could not lust, except by a miracle. Secular education was likely to bring in its train a godless materialism.