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Chronicle (Levin), 11 June 1947, Page 8

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Advice of his promotion to Bailiff ot the Grand Cross of the Order , of St, John of Jerusalem, has been received by Sir R. Heaton Rhodes. The honoqr is at present held, it is believed, by no more than eight mexnbers of the Order excepting Royalty. It has been be* stovved on Sir lieaton Rhodes in recog uition of his work during the early days of the Commandery in New Zealand. Sir Heaton Rhodes is the only Bailiff outside Great Bifitain. The head of the Greek Orthodox Ohurch in New Zealand, the Very Rev. . Arehjmandrite C. M. Boyazoglu, has been appointed Archimandrite of Alelbourne. He will leave Wellington on Monday. In Melbourne he will replace the Very Rev. Archimandrite Theophilaetos Papathanasopoulos who has returned to Constantinople fcrr ordmation as Arehbishop of Australia aird New Zealand. That position was held till a few months ago . by Arehbishop Timotheos who has been appointed Arehbishop of the Island of Rhodes. Ihere is yet no indication who will '•eplace Rev. Boyazoglu in Ne'w Zealand. He was the first Archimandrite of New Zealand and was appointed just two years ago. The death has occurred at the Christc.hurch Lewisham Hospital of the Very Rev. Father Noel Hehir, of the Society of Jesus, r'ector of the Holy Name Seininary, Riccarton, at the age of 48. Born at Melbourne in 1898 Rev. Hehir entered the novitiate of the Jesuit Fathers at the age of 17 and became one of its outstanding members, partieularlv in thc field of education. After graduation in Dublin with the | M.A. degree at the National Hniversity, he studied philosophy at Louvain and for his tlieological studies he returned to Dublin where he was o'rdained to the priesthood in 1930. Rev. Hehir returned to Australia in 1931 and from 1940 to 194(5 was rector of St. Ignatius College, Riverview. It was from this appointment that he was nominated rector of the _ New Zealand nationaJ minor. seminary at Riccarton where he took up the reetorship last January. A brother of deceased, Rev. Father Thomas Hehir, is also a Jesuit Father on the staff of St. Aloysius College.