CHURCH AND SAILOR

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1015, 4 July 1930, Page 15

CHURCH AND SAILOR

i FLYING ANGEL MISSION DOES FINE WORK PRINCE OF WALES’S TRIBUTE The Prince of Wales presided at the i 74th annual meeting of the Flying Angel Mission to Seamen, held recently , in London. Archbishop Averill, ! Primate of New Zealand, was also j present, and pronounced the blessing t jat the conclusion of the meeting. 1 “I am very glad indeed to have been ■ j able to come and preside at the 74th annual meeting of this great society, j because I realise the wonderful work 1 ! that it has done for many years, and is doing, and, we hope, will continue to do,” said the Prince. “The society : j for nearly three-quarters of a century | has been struggling for the welfare < of the British sailor all over the world. And from my own experience, 1 having visited several of the homes j | and institutes in all parts of the globe, I : ,\ I have found a splendid work going ■ on. “I wish I was today taking the chair; at the annual meeting of a society • which embraced this and all other societies who have /similar aims and ' aspirations. I cannot help thinking j that if all such societies could really . join together in their splendid work, it ’ would lead to even greater efficiency j , and, most important of all no overlap- 1 ping. Incidentally it would be far j more economical and satisfactory for a i generous public. However, this is ! only a. suggestion thrown out, in the : hope that some day such amalgamation mav be possible. “WELL WORTH DOING” “I say unhesitatingly, that anything ; you can do, or can get others to do to help in the great work is well worth doing,” continued his Royal Highness. “You will be helping to steer our seafaring population through the hur- ; ricanes, typhoons and cyclones of life, < not in the deep waters of the ocean be- i cause they are past masters of that, but to steer them through the intri- « cate and unchartered channels of. the < thoroughfares and slums of the ports j and harbours they visit, in order that ] we as members of an insular country and a far-flung empire, may live and exist.” The Flying Angel Mission in Auek- . land, ministered to the spiritual and ; recreational needs of 10,000 seamen j for the year ended March 31, last. . This, the Chaplain, the Rev. H. K. ] Vickery, regards as very satisfactory . in view of the fact that the mission is still without a permanent home, the Navy League rooms being used temporarilv. Plans are under consideration foi* = a new building to be erected at the « foot of Albert Street, probably toward the end of the year.