BISHOP AS TUTOR

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 882, 28 January 1930, Page 16

BISHOP AS TUTOR

TRAINING CLERGYMEN PROGRESS AT HAMILTON From Our Own Correspondent HAMILTON, Monday. The progress made since the foundation of St. Anselm’s College in Hamilton by the Bishop of Waikato is referred to in the latest issue of the “Diocesan Magazine.” “Following on the precedent set by Bishop Selwyn, and the martyred Bishop Patteson, the effort made during the last two and a-lialf years in this diocese by means of St. Anselm's College at Bishopscourt to afford men of New Zealand who feel they have a vocation to the sacred ministry to test that vocation, has not been without success,” states the report. “The Bishop-elect of W’aiapu, and the Bishops of Christchurch and Dunedin, have given all encouragement in their power, and many others have supported the effort by gifts in money and in kind, and by the sympathy and good wishes. The Rev. H. L. Pinehard, the bishop’s commissary in England, has just sent a second donation of £SO from friends in England who are endeavouring to respond as far as possible to the world call for help abroad and in the mission field. “Thirteen students have passed through the bishop’s hands since the inauguration of the effort,” adds the report. “Of these, four are ordained. Mr. Ayres, who matriculated in 1928, taking Latin and Greek as two of his subjects, mastered them sufficiently to pass in 12 months. He has a Marsh Scholarship at St. John’s College, Auckland, and has successfully passed his first year at the New Zealand University in Greek, economics, and history. Mr. Bell, at St. Anselm’s, and Mr. Irwin, at Selwyn College, Dunedin, are awaiting the matriculation results. If successful, the former hopes to win a Marsh Scholarship at St. John’s College at the end of the month. Mr. Webber has passed his second grade (with Greek) in 1929, and hopes, with the aid of the John King Scholarship, if it is granted to him, to go to St. John’s for a year, and secure his third grade New Zealand Theological Board of Studies diploma. “The Rev. H. Sinclair learned Greek and took two grades in one year, and was ordained deacon. He is doing voluntary clerical work for a year in the parish of Okato, with a view to taking his fourth grade in October. “The bishop has applications from five men at the present moment, each of whom is a worthy candidate for Holy Orders. He hopes to make arrangements for them during his absence in England, and to resume the work of guiding their studies on his return.”