AFTER 20 YEARS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 705, 3 July 1929, Page 16

AFTER 20 YEARS

ARCHDEACON OF WAIKATO RESIGNS LEAVING HAMILTON SOON iFrom O’lr Own Correspondent) HAMILTON. Tuesday. After over 20 years 1b Hamilton. Archdeacon E. M. Cowie. of Hamilton, is resigning. At the Waikato Diocesan Synod this evening, Archdeacon Cowie made the announcement that he had tendered his resignation to the bishop, and was leaving the district in September. Archdeacon Cowie is the eldest son of the late Bishop W. G. Cowie, the tirst Bishop of Auckland. He was born at Bishopscourt, Auckland, on May 26, IS7O, and was educated at Christ’s College, Christchurch at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and at the Ely Theological College. He was ordained at Winchester in 1594 and held a curacy at St. Michael's, Portsmouth, England. He was appointed chaplain to the Bishop of Auckland and diocesan missionary in 1597. In 3 902 he was appointed vicar of Te Aroha and in 190 S he became vicar of Hamilton. In 1913 he was appointed archdeacon of Waikato, and took an active part in the formation of the new Waikato diocese, when it was first mooted in 1924. Archdeacon Cowie acted as the archbishop's commissary until the consecration of Bishop Cherrington on December 12, 1926. He resigned his appointment as vicar of Hamilton in April, 1927. Archdeacon Cowie has been most popular with all sections of the community during his sojourn in Hamil- j ton. and has worked very hard and' done a great deal of good. He has ; been chaplain of the Waikato Mounted j lllfles since 1898, and has always j taken a great interest in volunteers! and territorials. ,