ARCHDEACONS ASK FOR MORE PAY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 41, 12 November 1919, Page 9

ARCHDEACONS ASK FOR MORE PAY

4 "IMPOSSIBLE TO LIVE ON .t2OO MAXIMUM." t . Archdeacons are the latest, reolion of tho community to agitate 'for more pay. They have not yet threatened to down prayer books, but a vigorous protest has ■been entered/on their behalf by Dr. G. Arbuthnot, Archdeacon of Coventry, who points out that an Act of Parliament of 1840. which limits the salary of an archdeacon to „£2CO per annum, fixes a maximum on which it is. impossible for the holder of the office to live. Canon Alexander, of St. Paul's, concurs in this view, and Dr. Charles, Archdeacon of Westminster, is emphatic on the need for an o'liiilable adjustment of the nay of these responsible, clerics. "An archdeacon is the ive of the bishop." said Dr. Charles, lo a "Daily Express" representative. "He has to visit the incumbent of every parish in his section of a diocese at least onco a year, and he must become acquainted wilh the moral character and the work of all the clergy in his district. "He has to dnirny all travelling mid other out-of-pocket expenses mil of his JE2OO. Unless li" ha s an income in addition to that derived from bis arohidiaeoiinl npnoiilnicnt I 1." eannnl exist. "He must, indeed, be a philosopher, who fo'-ls entirely happy us an archdeacon."