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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1984, 21 January 1907, Page 1

ANGLICAN SYNOD. PRIMATE’S ADDRESS. Tlio sovontentli General Synod of the Anglican Church was opened in Dunedin last week. All the bishops wore present, and there was a largo gathering of the clergy and laity. The Primate (Dr. Novill), in Ins address, referred to his visit Home and the all-absorbing question of religious instruction in tbo primary schools of the Old Country. The bill introduced by Mr Birrell was the first premeditated departure from the history of tlio past and ovort action upon a principle not previously formally recognised in England. • The principle of State education was quite modern. . Educational institutions were formorly both founded and managed by the Churcb, and that from the highest to the lowest grades. There was an impression that we in Now Zealand had done something to boast of in the establishment of a morel} 7 secular system of education. Ho wanted the intelligence of the country to bo awakened to this question, bocauso, so far from the emasculated scheme of instruction miscalled education being a gain, it was, in proportion to its limits, an immeasurable loss to tbo individual and to the community. Religion was the foundation of ethical conviction. The Primate proceeded to deal with the publication of tlio report of the Royal Commission on ecclesiastical discipline. It was well, he said, in this age of so-called Catholic revival, to bo able to distinguish what was truly Catholic from what was merely medieval or perhaps quite modern, and that in respect of both doctrine and ritual. There were few subjects it behoved the members of the Synod to attend to more earnestly and generously than the work of the Board of Theological Studies, which was practically the divinity school of the Catholic Church in this country. It was his ambition and hope that the Church of Now Zealand might shine forth in the Southern Seas as Alexandria or Edessa did in the central regions or Ireland when her Church was free amid the Celtic races in the 'Vest. He rogrettod that the movement in favor of the . establishment of a faculty of theology did not find favor with the Government, and he thought it was now clear that the Church, through her provincial Synod must proceed to issvie diplomas of her own to her successful students in theology, or else take advantage of the facilities offered by the University of Durham to take degrees there. The Primate then dealt with the work of the Church in the islands of the Eastern Pacific. It must not be forgotten that the Cook and ITervey groups, as well as several isolated islands, had come under the ecclesiastical authority of this country. He gave a brief outline of the efforts which had been recently made in the direction of the establishment of a bishopric intended to complete the chain of church organisation by embracing an area south of the Lino to the eastward of the sphere of the Melanesian Mission and so to meet the southern boundary of the jurisdiction now given by their brethren of the American Church to the present Bishop of Honolulu and the Bishop of the Philippine Islands. Bishop Restawick informed him at Honolulu that he would use his influence with the American Board of Missions to get that portion of the Samoan group which belonged to America to be joined to the proposed see. In return for the pecuniary support which ho received from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, he would do his best to obtain help for the foundation of a bishopric of Polynesia. On the subject of assistant' bishops for dioceses in New Zealand, it appeared to him wiser for the Synod to make arrangements for the" appointment of an assistant bishop rather than to nhupsi. oblige a conscientious bishop to resign because bis advancing years rendered him less fit to accomplish long and fatiguing journeys while in other respects his services to the Church remained unimpaired. An alternative scheme of subdivision of dioceses would in most instapeqs be ut present impossible,on account of tho difficulty or “raising au-tiiicKW incut.-- . to tho modern secular spirit, the Primate asked how wore they to account for that remarkable phenomenon exhibited by a section of the people of England and of our fellow-colonists of a desie to’ deprive the rising generation of all knowledge of the Christian faith and consequently of all the highest motives and aspirations. If any section of the community' going about its legitimate pursuits arrayed itself against religion on the supposition that the Church or the clergy were opposed to tlieir interests, they were, making a mistake which could only bo accounted for by want of understanding and knowledge of the nature of their religion and the motives of the clergy.

GOVERNMENT V. PRIVATE FACTORIES. There has been held this week (says Engineering) a conference of members of Parliament representing industrial constituencies which is of the first importance. The aim is to organise some combined effort to impress upon the Government the importance from the national point of view of maintaining in a state of efficiency the large privately-owned factories concerned in the manufacture of tlio munitions of war in England, also by keeping them employed on Government work. This has become necessary, owing to claims made on behalf of Government factories for a larger sharo of work than can reasonably be apportioned to them, in view of the relative producing capacity of the private and Government works. The War and other Government Departments have made definite promises to the private firms that, provided they laid down special plant for the manufacture of ships, machinery, guns, armour, projectiles, explosive powders, and the other munitions of war, they would bo supported, and tlio idea of giving preferential treatment to Governmo lit factories is therefore a grave breach of faith. Beyond this, continues Engineering, there is the undoubted fact that the improvements that have been made in nearly all the fighting elements of the fleet and of the array are the result of the research and experience of private works. An examination of the balance sheets of such firms as Messrs Vickers, Messrs Armstrong, and others, shows a large expenditure per annum on experimental work ; and if the researches of these establishments are not to lie utilised by the British Government, the advantage they bring may be diverted for the improvement of foreign fleets and armies. Again, it goes without saying that the incentive begotten of competition must improve, the management and organisation of private factories to such an extent as to ensure absolutely reliable results and a high degree of economy. There is also a greater latitude in connection with the remuneration of workmen: changes in the direction of the bonus system can more easily bo applied in private factories; and here also the gain is towards reduction in costs. The Government factories are all located at a very considerable, distance from the coal and iron fields, and material must therefore cost more. All these advantages, adds Engineering, will be Increased manifold in tlio hour of greatest need; because in time of war these great establishments, with their splendid organisation and modern plant, will be able—much more readily than the Government factories—to increase their producing facilities economically, by reason particularly of the greater i surplus of labor available.

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