GENERAL.

Waiapu Church Times, Volume I, Issue 2, 1 August 1907, Page 14

GENERAL.

We are asked to announce -to the diocese that the next Synod will meet on Thursday, September 26th, at 4 p.m., m the Synod Hall. The following arrangements have been decided upon :— Thursday, 26th, 4 p.m., Bishop's Address ; 8 p.m., full choral evensong. Friday, 27th, 4 p.m., Synod; 8 p.m., con^ versaztone given by church people to visiting clergy and lay representees. Saturday, Quiet day. Sunday, services with* special reference to Synod. Monday, Synod 4 p.m. and m the evening, and so on till the end of Session. Holy Communion daily at 8 a.m. Matins daily at 10 a.m. Evensong daily at 5.15 p.m.

The Bishop has informed us that he has instituted" the Rev. H. W. Williams, M.A., to the vacant Archdeaconry of Waiapu, and the Rev. D. S. Ruddock, 8.A., to that of Hawke's Bay. The appointments we understand are for seven years dating from 13th July, L 907.

The Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute held their monthly meeting m the Museum, ,wheri. the Rev. J. L. A. Kayll lectured on "The Criminal, his Evolution and Reformation." The lecture was really a plea for the application of scientific methods to the treatment of the criminal. The latter was using scientific methods m perpetrating his crimes, and it was strange that the State should not avail itself of the assistance of science m dealing with him. In this country,. it was not so. A manager of a reform^ atory was recently chosen because he had a knowledge of pigs, that animal being cultivated at the institution m question. No one thought it necessary that he should have any knowledge of the treatment of crime. In America, they adopted a different plan. The American probation system and the work of the Elmira reformatory were fully described. It had been said that the institution was still only an experiment. It was, however, 32 years old, had treated 14,000 offenders, and claimed to have reformed 84 per cent of them. It cost a little more per head per annum, but the term served was less than half as lon^r, which meant an immense saving. Owing to unfortunate circumstances, Mr Kayll, who has many fine photographic pictures, was unable to illustrate his lecture, which was listened to with much interest. The president, Dr. Henley, occupied the chair, and a -hearty vote of thanks was tendered to the lecturer.