Diocesan Synod

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 51, 16 October 1890, Page 3

Diocesan Synod

The following is referred to in our leading article of Jbo-day. W6 are indebted to: the Wellington Press for the extract :-^Mr Ci Eous Marten,. moved — >(1) That the; report of the select commit-' -tee on the Private' Schools Bill be adopted, .and that it be printed in the report of the proceedings 1 of the Sj nod; (2) That in accordance .with the recommendation ■contained ..in the said report, a select committee be appointed, with the instruction to promote the formation of election <jommi*!eei in the principal centres of population, with" the object of urging ■upon all Church members the advisableness of giving their votes in the coming general election preferentially to such candidates as shall promise to support in the new Parliament a measure framed on the same lines as ••" The Private Schools Bill, 1890," such to consist of the Most Heverend the Primate and all the Lay members of the Synod. >-v • The clauses were taken separately and the first was agreed to after an amendment that the report be simply printed had been negatived. The second clause was then proceeded with. Mr 0. Roug Marten said he wished it understood that in bringing such a motion before the Synod he was siiuplj acting as. the mouthpiece of a committee -which had met during the recess of the Synod, and the motion was the logical outcome of the said committee's investigations. ■ - ■ , The Bey B. Ooff ey seconded the motion. The i'rimate said he could not see any logical connection between the present motion and the resolution of' the former Synod, and he thought Mr Eous Marten's remarks in this direction were based on a fallacy. ' Mr Jellicoe characterised the motion , as a direct attempt to use the organisation of the church to interveue in the present electoral campaign, and both here and in the Old Country the people bad never failed to resent such, and the moyer of the resolution himself admitted the impropriety and danger of an intervention by the olergy m a political^contest by omitting them from the Committee. The motion was then put and on. a division was lost by > 17 to 23. the division being : Clergy, ayes, 10 ; Laity, ayes, 7 ; total 17 \ against clergy, noes, 6 ; laity, noes, 18; total 23. ' The Synod then went into committee and at 10 p.m. adjourned to 7.30 this evening. (The report of the committee on the Private Schools Bill, on which Mr Eous Maiten's motion was based, stated that "The committee recommended that the Most Beverend the Primate should petition Parliament in favour of the Bill as re-introduced during the recent sessions This was done, with the concurrence of | the Standirig Committee, but without renult.itbepressure of other public bu-iness. causing the BUI to be dropped ; The com mittee now recommend to the Synod that a new Select Committee be appointed, with mstriic i ns to promote the frrmation of e ! e*tion committees in the principal centres of popnlation with the obr ject of impressing upon all church mem', hers the advisablenefis of giving their Yoten in the coming election preferentially to such candidates as shall promise to support in the new Parliament a measure framed on the same lines as the Private Schools Bilk") •• -—■'■-

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