ST. PAUL’S PARISH.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4940, 17 February 1926, Page 2

ST. PAUL’S PARISH.

APPOINTMENT OF NEW VICAR.

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY FOUND. -

The Rev. F. B. Dobson, after ten years pf faithful ministration in St. Paul’s Parish, Paeroa, has now reached the pension age, and, in accordance with the accepted rule, has resigned his charge, and leaves Paeroa to take up’other Church work at the end of April. In ordinary circumistances the appointment of a new vicar would be made by lhe Bishop and Board of Nominators, for the diocese. In the present case, however, a technical point is. raised owing to the creation of the new diocese of Waikato, which comes into existence on April 1 next, so that at the time of Mr Dobson’s leaving, the parish will already have been, for a month, a parti of the new diocese. Technically, the Board of Nominators of the Diocese of Auckland has no power to appoint a vicar to a parish which is. in another diocese. A synod of the new diocese is to meet on Arpil 26 for the. purpose of electing a bishop, and it will no doubt be some months later before the administrative machinery of the diocese will be in working order. If 'the appointment of a new vicar was delayed till then it wa,s felt that the break In the continuity of. parish work would be detrimental, and also increase ‘the difficult|ies of the new vicar wihen ta.king charge of the parish.

A meeting of parishioners was held in the Parish Hall, on Sunday last, after Evensong, and it was decided that the People’s Warden write on behalf of. the parishioners to H > s Grace the Archbishop and ask him to exercise his, right} as Primate and appoint a new vicar, sp tha,t there might be no break in the work. It was also decided to write to the chairman of the provisional cbmmittee of the Waikato Diocese and ask the committee to approve of. the parishioners' action in the matter, and on behalf of the diocese to accept responsibility for its proportion of the travelling expenses of the new vicar coming to Paeroa.