BRITAIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1922, Page 1

BRITAIN.

I-IRART OF LABOUR SOUND.”

NEW ARCHBISHOP'S VIEW. PERTH, Fel>. 10. “1 am coming with a good hope and good courage to do my best and to try to be tlie friend of all and the servant of the whole community.” With these words tlile Anglican Archbishop-desig-nate of Melbourne, Dr Harrington Clare Lees, M.A., concluded an interview in Perth shortly after landing at Fremantle from the Nnrkundn.

Although 51 years of age, his appearance belies that. He conversed about Church matters cautiously, and would make no general comment on the move--11 i?nt.

Referring to the effect of the war on the Church, he said that it had clarified men’s vision and broken down their pettiness.. Tn Britain the whole State was still rocking after the war, but the ship was steadying every month. The financial stress was very great, but ho did'not regard the. social unrest as nearly as dangerous as it was. By that he did not mean that men wore going to sleep, hut that they were steadying tlreir ideas and views, and wore going on. He was convinced that Britain would pass triumphantly through her industrial troubles.

“I should say,” he continued, “that the saner Labour elements will dominate the industrialists. The others ha.v.e had their ‘Mow-off,’ ;uid I am quite sure the heart of Labour is very sound,”