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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 27, Issue 5, 1 May 1937, Page 3

(To the Editor). Sir, The question of marriages m Lent and, more- particularly, m Hoi'/ Week, which the Rev. C. G. G. Salt raised m your correspondence column last month, is of importance.

The Bishop's ruling is, as you say m your footnote, clear 'enough. Nevertheless it would appear from a study of the marriage ceremonies, reported m the daily press as taking place during this season, that clergy are still m ignorance of this ruling.

The failure of Clergy to act upon such a ruling unanimously, not only tends to weaken the authority of the Church, but also to confuse the mind of the laity. It is hardly necessary to add that it places m a very invidious position, those Clergy who are . endeavouring to abide by it to carry it out m their parishes. —Yours, etc., A. H. R. MORRIS. ;