NEW TARANAKI DIOCESE.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1917, Page 4

NEW TARANAKI DIOCESE.

MEETING 'OF THE CLERGY, ; ' - . .i ' ■ ■ ' A meeting of the clergy of tho.ChwWl of England was held at Stratford terday to consider the question a new' diocese for Taranaici. The folfpffing were present:—Tho Very sijv. Archdeacon Evans fNaw Plyaioiklh} , Very Bev, Archdeacon E. H. Rfevs CVV'anganui), the Revs. fl. G. Htetfe- (Ntvr Plymouth), -Grant Cowan. (Hawera); C, P. Harrison (Waitafa)., O. M. Stent (Opunake), J. A. ICeropthorno (Taurna-. runui), A. T, iPage (Jfeafti»), iH.JA. tfavell (Fitzroy), K. S. Hobday (fflth< am), H. W. Smith (Ohura), A. H. Barnutt (Inglewood), B. L. v Harvie (Inglawood'), 11. F. Geikles (Strathmore),; Jf, S. Harnett (Patea), W, J. Hands (Wa*i erloy), tad O. M. Howard (Stratford), Holy Communion c.vas celebrated by Archdeacon Eeeye, after which the moating wag held at'the vicarage. , Archdeacon Evans presided, and after; he had explained tho pf the meeting, the- fallowing resolutions werij unanimously and enthusiastically ried-!—-l. That this meeting of clergy, repro■Mvfcing. the- portions- «(■ of Auckland and Wellington which are inf eluded in the Toranaki Bishopric Am a,s defined by the General Synod in is of opinion x that immediate etwps | should be taken to raise % sum of moßsy sufficient to justify the formation of tie proposed iDioceae. ? . . ;

2. That, with this object in representative council ,ibe coavejkSfl, which shall consist of tjto (Bishops ptf Auckland land IWeUingkin, the 'toeohs of Taranaki, Wftitotara, &nd Waikato, all the clergy licensed by #l# respective Bishops workings jn the Said area, and one lay representative of eyery parochial district, twho shall fee selected by the vestry of each .parisfr within fth« boundaries of the proposed tliocese ; p>d that such council be called the "Coujwil of the Taranaki Diocesan IfndowMaJ&fc Fund." _ ,' ' i 3. That the council tfc convened, subject to the convenience of tie Bishop, to hold its first meeting', at Haworai if possible, and that the ArcLiEleacoaa of Tarenaki and Waitotara, and one jprU#t from each of their respective arcjidefujonrie», be appointed as a to- arrange- for tho samft. TJjs. cMjfjjy ■elected-to fill that position were; Rfv», S, GyHarvie (New Plymouth) and Gnas&t Cowan (Ilawera), the Eev. E. Jj. Hajvk (IngTewtioff) Mr£ fiJpiilM BWajy, . 4. Thai Archdeacon. Evaw.Jfee,, to consider the question whether he (?pll -be pfgpawdr to- aaespt honorary organising financial swrtHtfy of the proposed Taranaki Bishopric dowment Fund. , }• •