CANON BEAN

Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1932, Page 3

CANON BEAN

FORTY YEARS AS V.CAR. X e cl SERVICE AT ADDINGTON y > (Per Press Association — Copyright.) ■ CHRISTCHURCH, June 30. H Fifty-one years in Holy Orders, forty of which' have been .spent as vicar, of i the parish of Addington, is the record : j of Canon W. ,S. Bean, who yesterday ", celebrated the 40th anniversary of his 1 j. arrival, ip,, ,thp parish. ■ The-length ‘ of ■ | his period as vicar at Adding lon .con- [ 1 stitutes a record for the Canterbury L [.Diocese. Commenting on this recently the “Church News” stated : “Such a J- record is enviable—h 6 embodies the ideal of the parish priest, who when ' be gets his first parish settles there for life.” ! Canon Bean, who is to retir e at the send of this year, was ordained at . St. Michael’s by Bishop Harper or September 25th, 1881, and ’ was ordained a priest at Christchurch , Cathedral in 1883, also by Bishop Uar- ! p«r. For two 'years h e was a curate under Dean Harper, and was then up- ! pointed vicar at Sheffield, Springfield f snd Hororata, where he remained until 1888. H« moved next to Kuniara, and was vicar of that 'district and of Waim-ea and Stafford until 1892. While at Kuniara he married the o 1 lies', daughter of Mr It. J. Seddon, who was then Prime Minister. The vicarage at Addington when he and his wife arrived there in 1892 was i Mm same building that was used today, said Canon Bean yesterday. The parish, however, had been vastly different, with open paddocks where-hun-dreds of fiou-ses now stand. Canon i Bran has always used a bicycle- to get from one- part of his parish to another. During the war Canon Bean was chaplain to th e Expeditionary Force in Ramoa. Ha is at present president of the Royal Humane Society.