ANGLICAN SYNOD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 195, 13 May 1919, Page 6

ANGLICAN SYNOD

CONCLUDING. MEETINGS. By Association Napier, Hay 12. At the Anglican General Synod, Archdeacon Kerapthorne presented the regort of the committee on accounts atid financinl matters, and it was adopted. The Bishop of Auckland, in moving the adoption of tho report of/the Select Committee which was appointed to consider tho present condition of the Melanesian mission, said that all deeply regretted the resignation of tho Eight Rev. G. >T. Wood, as Bishop, through ill-health. Ho also stated that a commission was set up by the mission to carry on the affairs of the- diocese in tho meantime, and that the staff had adopted ■ the only course which was open to it. On the motion of the Denn of Waiapu it was resolved that the thanks of the synod be given l to the lie v. J.-A. Asher, Moderator-elect of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, for his gracious latter of reetin?. and that the write? ho informed that his kind wishes are reciprocated bv this synod. It was resolved that the next session of General Pvnod bo held in Auckland on April 27, 1922. On the motion of the Bishop of Auckland, various bills were passed through, their final 6lages. Letters of welcome arc to be sent to General Sir Andrew Russell ami General Richardson. ' The synod then closed with a short thanksgiving service in the Cathedral.

' The King lias been plensed to approve of the appointment of the Hon. George Frederick Stanley, C.M.G., M.P., ns Comptroller of His Mnjesty's Household, in the room of Sir Edwin Cornwall, 131., 'If P_ roaiana/l.