ANGLICAN SYNOD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1172, 6 July 1911, Page 6

ANGLICAN SYNOD.

BURIAL FEES AND CHURCHINGS.

BOTH CHARGES ELIMINATED,

The session of the nineteenth Synod of the Anglican diocese of Wellington was Continued in the Sydney Street Schoolroom yesterday afternoon,' the 'Bishop of Wellington (the flight Rev; T. H. Sprott) presiding.

BURIAL FEES ABOLISHED. A mutter of long standing which has been before several meetings w ;ls iulroduccil by Archdeacon Harper, who nioycd that the fee for burials &s.) be struct out of the list of diocesan fees. J. he regulation, lie said, was not obeyed by some at present notwithstanding.that, it u.u * diocesan regulation. "You may saj «ia von like about the., money" not E° in S tho clergy," said the Archdeacon, but lay people will not understand it. U doi'taker-s had told him that hey coukl not get it out of people s- head lee went to the clergyman ] -iuSte..a ot ti the Pension Fund. The that people could not get thu ' ied without paying, and -this« moot undesirable. Hence his mot . . Tim i?ev Y. W. W Qoilward, i'oxton, seconded tho motion. Z^' 10 n ®jfy g ° Ta s "a firstlv unscriptural, and 3 T k violation of a Cathohc c " st r „ ls i« for ti tea seemed to him to be lepulsi e He hoped they were there to see the buna ot' this iniduitous burial tee. (Heal, near.; Tho Rev. 11. 11. Hobday (Brooklyn) asited that the fee "Cliurchings, Is., be i added to the motion. The mover and seconuVhr&r. Joshua Jones thought the charee was just and proper, but ll was impossible to press it and he would be dad to see it done away with. It wy impossible to get the idea out of tno pile's mind that the fee -en diree y to the clergv. "Whilst directed to collca the fee the'clergv could not do so Without incurring a certain amount of odiuin. ° Mr, add. .on to tho motion was separated irom -Vi chaw con Harper's motion and put T&y discussion took, place on the al Mr! d Geo. t 'shirtclifl'e remarked that the elimination of the charges was p B°'"^° Sl Tnoth'fr. Speaker Archdeacon down every year but it was co ecbrfb} the undertakers. It was . collectand those people from whom it was "lie od freouently paid nothing else to tnc chu ch He 5 thought instructions should be given to have the fee collected by lie undertaker ns was done in Palmeuton was then put and carried on the ™ice-

ALL SAINTS' CHILDREN'S HOME. On the motion of Archdeacon Harper, it was decided that the rcpclr Crne PalrnorsUu« be published with other similar reports as ™ a PP««4£ to the Diocesan \ ear Book. In wpiam msm?

' ' PENSION FUND TRUST. ' Mr. 0. Siiirtcliffc moved that Mr. G. g' Bridges lie appointed a trustee , mmsm 1 able services. , BHd"es | ia d work" in Canterbury before he came ISSsipi have som! one who had » the Wellington diocese. He with W ?£ f nf Mr Bridges. Tho amendment wnS lost, and the original motion was carritd' DIOCESAN NOMINATORS. rni.p 1),,,. A. M. Johnson moved that Si,"'Asi i'u»«»»™ y Archdeacon Fancourt his name be withdiawn a n'^LfotArchdeacon Jacobs and the Eev Archdeacons Harper and Jacobs and Mr. \V. J. Birch were elected. NEW EASTBOURNE PARISH. A motion was put forward by the Key Joshua Jones, that the °[ 4 ° parish of St. James s, Lower Mutt, be altered with a view to the creation of a new parochial district at laislbouino. Speakm" to the motion Mr. Jones remarked that although the work at Eastbourne at the outset would bo light, t would soon increase. Personally he felt that ho could not give tho necessary time to tho two districts. Eastbourne was isolated from the Hutt and had already controlled its own business. They £o able to raise tho necessary stipend without any assistance from the general church fund—(applause)—but they would doubtless be glad to accept any assistance for house allowance that mi D li.t be made. He did not wish to see any gap between the separation of the parishes, and would move that tho following words be added to the resolution: , provided that this resolution be not; carried into until tho Bishop is prepared to make an appointment-lor the mw iljsrrict. The motion was seconded by Mr. U. Al. Yeats, Lower Hutt. Captain Hewitt objected to the boundaries of the new district not being defined and suggested .that the matter be referred to the .Standing Committee for a report'to-tho next Synod. „ At length it was decided to-refer tho matter of boundaries to a committee which will report to-day. A THANIC OFFERING. Archdeacon Fancourt moved: "That the sum of .£7OO allocated to this diocese from tho great thank offering on tho occasion of tho Pan-Anglican Church Congress in London be entrusted to t'ho Standing Committee, and after mature consideration of tho question, be devoted to some educational purposes." The committee of Bishops which controlled the fund at Home, he said, wished the money applied for the education of girls. It would not be paid over- until, the committee was satisfied that it would be applied to some really useful purpose and unless some decision was come to speedily the allocation might be forfeited. Unless they could augment the allocation sufficiently to warrant the starting of an educational institute on a proper basis it would bo little use accepting the money at all. . ,

The Rev. Joshua Jones seconded the motion.

The chairman said he had received no direct information in regard to the matter, all he knew being verbal information. If wo could not use t'ho grant lie did not think New Zealand would lose it, but rnther that it would go to Auckland and Dunediri. The motion was carried. A PERMANENT MISSION AGENCY. Archdeacon Fancourt moved: That the fhankolYeriug raised in the diocese in connection with, the recent mission lie entrusted to tho guardianship of the Standing Committee, to be by it devoted lo the establishment of a permanent Mission Agency, as resolved by Synod in last year's session, so soon as it is possible for it to doviso a satisfactory working schcmo for giving etTect to tho resolution already passed by Synod. The snin, ho said, was about ,£B7O, and he thought it might be invested in a way'that it would bring in a permanent income for a permanent work. This present sum might be supplemented Inter, i Tho motion was seconded by the Kev. A. LW, H. Compton, and carried after a short discussion.

THE BIBLK SOCIETY. The Eov. -Innis-Joncs, on bohalf nf (ho "Rev. 1\ 11. Spencer, mov<;d: That the Synod reaffirms its recognition of J.he claims of the British and Foreign Hfbio Society upon. the Church in this dioetve. The motion was carried. MISSION, MUST PKOPKUTY. On llio motion of flic I'cv. A. 0. Williams it wis decided (hat a >eloct committee be appointed to inquire into the position of those portions of the Now Zealand Mission Trust. Board property within the Wellington diocese; such, committee to consist uf the Bev. A..M. »lohn--s>on, Ker. 11. T. oteaiey, Messrs. E. H. Bean, W*. 11. Simcox. K. Wilson, and the mover. The committee to report, to the present session of the Synod. The property involved was, the mover sniti. very considerable, and needed immediate attention. The motion was carried.