VICAR ENLISTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 216, 11 September 1940, Page 9

VICAR ENLISTS.

REV. HENRY G. TAYLOR. Joining the New Zealand military forces as a chaplain, the Ke.v. Henry Gordon Taylor, vicar of Kaitaia for the past two and a-half years, will go into camp at Papakura to-morrow with the Fourth Reinforcements. i After taking orders at St. John's College and graduating with the B.A. degree at the Auckland University College, he was for two years curate at St. Barnabas' Church, Mount Eden, after which, for a further two years, he was vicar of Bombay and chaplain to St. Stephen's College. He then went to England for a year and was assistant priest at St.

Simon's, Bethnal Green, in the East End of London, before returning to New Zealand to take up work in Kaitaia parish. Mr. Taylor has great admiration for the spirit and resolution of the Londoners, among whom he worked in a densely-crowded parish, where no part of the. area was more than four minute*' walk from the vicarage. Within that space was a population of 22,000, he said. Each street was lined with a continuous wall of tenements, two storeys high, with basements also occupied. "They are people who will ne.ver be overwhelmed by trials and suffering," he declared. "They have a sense of humour that rises above the difficulties of life."