PRIMATE’S APPEAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 270, 4 February 1928, Page 12

PRIMATE’S APPEAL

RESTORING OLD Mission BUILDING

LINK WITH BISHOP PATTESo*

The appeal by Archbishop , v Primate of -New Zealand f or , with which to restore the hi-tori ""** building of the Melanesian Mission Bay. Kohimarama. i. , 10r with success, but still more «.“•**** required before the restoraUnT *' s ' 5 begun. Uon can j, A sum of £ 300 is reauirca bishop Averill has received it.„ Atcl- - another £IOO is forth f nmi„ ar - W “E °f restoration will t* The Primate said rn-.nti, people had written to hire f. parts of the Dominion expressi^” l , s: sure at the action which veil* taken. as wi*. Some months ago the Mission Trust Board offered £ooo with the provision that thS * ri .ic subscribed a similar amom mik ' Last October the Archbishop ~ v charge to the Diocesan Svnod fc,i an earnest appeal for funds re,?*I*' 1 *' structure closely associated winT* 1 5 martyred Bishop Patteson ana early days of the mission preserved and utilised as a mus«l ** Melanesian relics and cur£L°? would, he said, remove a reproach J: Zealand^ 0 " ChUrCh «*•*••« ft Recently Archbishop Averill the building and came to tte red? sion that if restoration were » carried out it must be started xriH * delay. ••■•kl

reply to suggestions that Melanesian Mission Trust should « the whole of the monev the restoration, the Arehbishn, ' that the board had already LS? £ 00.000 in roading the area «f it had cut up at Mission Bay reJS'ing drainage and carrying out necessary work for the subdiviJT'' The sale of sections, at the 22? time, had not recouped the board* ' this large outlay. He thought -G the trustees, in offering £SOO, haddi. all that was expected of them.