BISHOP AVERILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 25 August 1914, Page 4

BISHOP AVERILL.

VISIT TO NEW PLYMOUTH. . The Bishop of Auckland, Dr. A. W. Averill, is at present, visiting this portion of the Auckland diocese. He will arrive in New Plymouth on Wednesday next, having previously visited ©tratfo'fld, Inglewood, Waitara, Okato, and otiter places. On Wednesday evening varirhioners will he given an opportunity of meeting •the Bishop at a social in St. .Mary'B Hal!. Which will commence at 8 o'clock. A "Quiet Day" for tie clergy, layreaders and other church workers of the district will Us held on the following day from 1.30 to 5 o'clock in the afieinoon, when the Bishop will give the fi -at of his addresses. On Friday afternoon the opening of tho new Vogeltown Sunday School w'.l take place at 3 o'clock, while in tl\» evening, at 8 o'clock, a missionary meeting will ibe held in St. Mary's Hall, a! which the Melanesian, Maori and Hon.e Missions will be represented. The Bis'h&ij will give an address , and Archdeac/.i Hawkins and Rev. C. W. Howard (vicar of Stratford) will also speak. Saturday will be a rest day for the Bishop. On Sunday the anniversary services will he held, and the Bishop will bo the preacher at the rooming and evening services, and will hold the Confirmation i". tlie afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Dr. Averill will return to Auckland early in the following l week. | TUB TARANAKI DIOCESE. (Replying to a very warm welcome j from the parishioners .it Inglewood on Friday evening, the Bishoo said there was one subjeeit upon which he had been asked to speak, although he was afraid what he had to say might rot quite harmonise with their present ideas. There had been some movement in the direction of establishing a bishopric on the Taranaki side of the Island, and if such was really wanted they should show in some practical wav how that desire eoutd be carried out. There was no doubt the Auckland diocese was becoming too large to be worked by one man, as it had grown and would coutinuo to grow with remarkable speed, and it would not be long before the city reached 150,000. In was now title largest citv >n the Dominion, and would, lie thought, continue to he so, and if the church was to be kept usp there must be a division of the district. lie felt sure that none of t'hem wished to sec their church take a back seat 1 . The Sydod would fix the boundaries of the new bishopric, and the centre might be as far north as Waikato or as fnr south as Wanganui. It would not be possible to form a compact bishopric in Taranaki, as that would not relieve either Auckland or Wellington. 'His new bishopric would jmibaWy be something' like Waiupu, which reached from Woodville to Tauranga, and it would be, quite impossible to say where the centre would be.—Record.