THE CHURCH IN CAMPS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 47, 11 March 1937, Page 13

THE CHURCH IN CAMPS

Attention to Needa of Men difficulFproblem iSome indication of the desire of the C'hurch of England to extend the benefits of chureh services to men in Publie ■^orks eonstruction eajnps is given in this month^s issue of the Chureh News, which annonnees that a special committee has been set up by dioee^an ofificials in Christchurch to investigate the position, "The resumption of railway eonstruction and other publie wprks undertaken by the Government to absorb the nnemployed has created a pressing problem for the several bishops in whose dioceses the camps of workmen have been sefc up, as for all the ehqrches," the Ghurch News says. "These camps are in many plaees, some like those pn the South Island main truqk with temporary population of 1000, others with a hundred or so famiJies, or bachelors. A« the ordinary eupply of active clergymen in New Zealand is limited to the number of permanent positions available, the stafflng problem of any. efiort of the ehurch to provide xninistrations is difficult, and as the ordinary funds pf the dioceses have little margin of surplus unappropriated the finanping of ministrations is hardly less difficult."