TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 96, 25 April 1911, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

IMPORTATION OF CLERGY. OPIS7ON OF AUCKLAND'S NEW BISHOP. * [BT XXL2GBAFH — SPECIAL TO IHB POST.] , AUCKLAND, This Day. The new Bishop of Auckland, in an interview at Melbourne prior to leaving for Auckland, speaking on the question of the "importation" of clergy to Aus- | tralia, said : "Although an imported | man myself I hold very strongly to the opinion that Australia ought to draw her ministerial recruits from Australia, and not from abroad. At the same time an injustice is inflicted upon th© imported rn»n as well as upon the nativeborn. There are, indeed, a few Home men who comti out to good positions in Australia. I am on© of them myself, but tho great majority of the clergy who come to Australia come out to do the hard, thankless, pioneer work of the backblocks. Of course, I think there is an advantage to Australia herself in bringing out picked mer to do special work, such as teaching, for example. No one who Jmows what a magnificent work Dr. Radford is doing for education in Sydney would question for one moment that his transfer has been a great gain to Australia, but, speaking generally, I maintain that the Australian ministry should be officered by Australians, young men who have been bred and born to tho conditions of life in witictt they are called to minister — and they are quite equal to the task from every point of view." i