ANGLICAN SYNOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 October 1917, Page 5

ANGLICAN SYNOD.

—■ o THE PROPOSED TARANAKI DIOCESff. By Telegraph.— Press Association. . Auckland, Last Night. the Anglican Synod opened to-day. la the course of his charge, Bishop Avelill f#id the varioua, trußt board? had 4vMed £12,000 in tho recent trir loan. Sixteen clergy from the di<M) W«e active service, therefore ft seined only just that he should-now claim" *xejhption for the clergy called in tho ballot, so that chaplains required might be supplied and the Woric of the <lidctee maintained. R ¥v * Referring to the proposed new diocese of Tarenaki, Bishop Averill mid tfcato considering the rapidly" increasing pdtjulation of the North Island and the increasing claims on tho'Biihoprof A*«cland and Wellington,' the tiitfe seetned npe for action. Discussing the war, Bishop Averillsaid the causes which led to international war wore but an exaggeration of the caMes which led to industrial iinrest, and the solution of the industrial problem would undoubtedly make a real advance in the solution of the international problem. The Church had undoubtedly failed to lend a sympathetic car to the*just claims and aspirations of the great wage-earn-ing class. The comradeship of all classes at the front would, ho hoped, breakdown the foolißh artificial distinction between man and man and develop a new sense of mutual respect when the men returned to civil life.