“A DARK BLOKE.”

Shannon News, 4 October 1929, Page 2

“A DARK BLOKE.”

NEW ARCHBISHOP USES THE VERNACULAR.

(“Sun” Special). LONDON, Monday. “Tell the people of Australia that you saw a dark, sallow bloke who suggested that they hope for the best and prepare for the worst,” said the Arch-bishop-designate of Melbourne (Canon. Head) to the special .representative of “The Sun.”

“Ask the church people to pray for me —I may need their prayers. I am sony to keep Australia waiting so long, but my Canadian visit is a standing promise. I had intended to visit the United States, but have given up the idea.”

Canon Head is certainly dark, but he is not sallow. He is well-knit, vigorous, alert and looks at least a dozen years younger than his 55. “I rowed in the second boats at Cambridge, and so on, and played a little golf before the war, but I have since been so busy that I forgot what little I knew,” he said. “My chief recreation has been cycling, "which combines exercise with entertainment in a way unknown to motorists.

“My ideal, which my wife supports, has always been to keep one afternoon a week free. Sometimes it is impossible, owing to ealls and claims.”

• Canon Head has a 17-year-old son who will probably follow him to Emmanuel College, Cambri<|ge. Canon Head expects to go to London to attend the Lambeth Conference in 1930, until which time Mrs Head will probable remain in England.