MELANESIAN MISSION
DIVISION OF DIOCESE PROBLEM OF DUAL CONTROL (From Our Resident Reporter.) WELLINGTON, To-day. The status of the missionary diocese of Melanesia was referred to by Archbishop Averill in the course of his presidential address to the General Synod. The archbishop said that the smooth-working of the diocese was suffering and the question had arisen as to whether the diocese should be divided as between the Australian and New Zealand Churches. “Both for political and ecclesiastical reasons,” said Dr. Averill, “it is highly desirable tha, the Australian Church should take over the full responsibility -for the Northern Territory, and that it should be dissociated from the sphere of the present Melanesian Mission. The Australian Church, with financial assistance from England, is willing to finance operations in that area, and it is inadvisable that there should be any kind of dual control.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 334, 20 April 1928, Page 16
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