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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2908, 21 October 1916, Page 8

The system under which stipends of clergymen in the Auckland diocese are paid through the vestries instead of through' the diocesan office was condemned in unmeasured terms by Bishop Averill at the Anglican Synod. "The system,"' he said, "is a ' disgraceful one, and if' men had not large' hearts and large souls they would never consent to take Holy Orders and_ to be treated in such a way." He said 1 that he knew of many humiliations to .whichthe clergy were subjected under the present system. They should be.paid their stipends in ■ ah honourable and!respectful way, and this "could be done only through the diocesan office. • The clergy,"'the bishop added, "have feelings as.. well as other people. They, have to live, many of them on a miserable pittance, and at least it should be given to them in a decent way. At present it is..not-given, to-, them .in a decent' way." -, - ; .- ~,-..,- •;' > . ■'■■ ' .Tn.Tirging-that-cric.ket be kept.going Mr-. F- -Earl, at'-the ajihuairmeetuig. pj the- Auckiand'.Cricket Association, .said the plavers had a sacred duty to keep •up the" game.-. Cricketers should nob worry too much over the sorrows and horrors'"of war and let the game go back If possible players should pay more for their cricket.. It was very, 'difficult': for .the' executives of. clubs, particularly:t3iosewithpnvate-groundß, to keep the clubs in existence: unless they-had"good support. It was essential to get money to keep the game going. At the last annua! meeting the deWtes considered whether tb.ej. should prohibit players-of military age. He was in'favour of such a course at one time, but nowhe.was.of the ppinion that, it .was. not the duty of the committee ■to pry into thei rioitives of a man who did not enlist There might be some motive which oould not be publicly .«P>«™4;, ters were different now and it could safely be left to the Government to deal with players' "who ought -toj,-tat did, not, enlist. .:.......: