ANGLICAN SYNOD

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9796, 20 October 1917, Page 8

ANGLICAN SYNOD

BISHOP ON SUNDRY WAR ?

QUESTIONS

Press Association. AUCKLAND, October 19. Tile Anglican Synod opened to-day. In the course of his charge, Bishop Averill said that various trust hoards had invested £12,000 in the recent War Loan. Sixteen clergy from the diocese were on active service. It therefore seemed only just that ho should now claim exemption for the clergj called in the ballot, so that the chaplains required might be supplied _ and the work of the diocese maintained. Referring to the proposed new diocese of Taranaki, Bishop Averill said that considering the rapidly-increasing population of the North Island and the increasing claims on the Bishops ». Auckland and Wellington, the time seemed ripe for action. Discussing the war Bishop Averill said that the causes which led te international war were but an exaggeration of the causes which led to industrial unrest, and the solution of the industrial problem would undoubtedly make a real advance in the solution of the international problem. The Church had undoubtedly failed to lend a sympathetic ear to tie just claims and aspirations of the great wage-earning class. The comradeship of all classes at the front would, he hoped, break down the foolish artificial distinction between man and man, and develop a now sense of mutual respect when the men returned to civil life.