STIPENDS OF ANGLICAN MINISTERS.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 October 1919, Page 4

STIPENDS OF ANGLICAN MINISTERS.

TOTALLY INADEQUATEQ REFERRED TO THE PAHISHES. ' T NAPIER, this day. ' At the Anglican Synod, the finding of the committee set up to deal“ with the question.-of the stipends of the clergy ~ was as follows.—— ‘ “That the scale of stipends in the majority of cases now paid is wholly insufficient for the services rendered, and that they are quite inadequate for the support or the clergy.” E \ ' “That stipends paid to Maori clergy" are so low as hardly t67Tlmount to ) payments at all. It is impossible for _ these men to live without supplementing -their income 13y-fiarming or other pursuits. ’ ’ _ In his address Bishop Sedgwick said there w.as a scarcity of clergy throughout the province. We bewail the fact that so few of our young men are olfering themselves for I~lol_s"'Orders. Cannot one of ‘the reasons be found here, While no one with a sense of this vocation would consider for one moment What he could make, but of the minis- ' tery he might reasonably hesitate to enter a profession in which it would be impossible adequately to SUPP°Tt 3 Wife and bring up a family. 'l‘l:elal'gel‘ proportion of stipends remain wholly inadequate. ’ \ Mr C. A. .De Lautour moved: “Thai? the report be forthwith taken into con~ sideration, and be referred= to €111" parishes in the diocese for immediate remedial action; that in the case Of the inadequate payments to the Maorisy 319 synod, at the request of the Bisholls - refer the matter‘ for redress 130‘ the Mls‘ ;\ sion Board, or to take such other steps in the matter as he shall deem 9313951" ent.” , The motion was carried unanimous13'.