WAR WORKERS' GARDEN PARTY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17691, 31 July 1919, Page 5

WAR WORKERS' GARDEN PARTY.

GUESTS OF KING A2TD QUEEN.

Press Aeeociation—By Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, July 25 (delayed). Ten thousand war- workers attended a garden party at the invitation of the King and Queen, and provided the liveliest spectacle in the history of Buckingham Palace. The crowd mingled with society psople. It included ex-munitioners, aproned nurses, waitresses, policemen, Salvationist girls, and municipal dignitaries. Some of the workers were provided with new toppers, and tail-coats, and the women were dressed in the latest fashions.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

STIPENDS OF OLEKGY

DISCUSSION LSI AUCICLAND,

(From Oue Own Cobbespondent.) . \ AUCKLAND, -July 50. Ounng a discussion at the Auckland Diocesan Synod on the question of increasing the stipends of the clergy, Mr O. J. Tunics moved the second reading of a Bill providing that the minimum salaries of vicars should be raised from £250 to £300. Ho indicated that he would be prepared to accept a new clause increasing the stipend of vicars for parochial districts from £200 to £250.

Ihe Rev. R. Wood said that the minimum salary was inclined to become the standard. In one southern diocese the minimum was £20G, and when a parish paid that sum it was inclined to think H had done all that was necessary. If the stipend for a parish was fixed at £500 that figure would be accepted as the standard He considered that the sum should bo raised to £350. Ho did not think a stipend of £250 for the vicars of paroehiai districts was adequate. A clergyman with a family had as hard a life in a parochial district as in a parish, without the added difficulties arising out of the need for a great deal of travelling. Tho.w who had to maintain a horse, with the present cost of shoeing feed, knew the difficulties of country vicars. He moved that the stipend for districts bo raised from £200 to £350.

Archdeacon Macmurray said there were some parochial districts where it would not bo possible or desirable to require a minimum stipend of £250. He hoped that sooner or later there would be a number of amall parochial districts where aged clergymen could still serve the Church. Mr Tunks then added to the Bill a clause providing a .minimum of £250 for parochial districts, and that stipends for home mission districts should be left in the hands of the Standing Committee.