POPULAR ARCHBISHOP
FAREWELLED IN CAPE TOWN. Clergy and laity of the Cape Town diocese packed the City Hall to its doors on an occasion last month, when they assembled to bid formal farewell to the Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Rev. F. R. Phelps, and Mrs Phelps. Many people prominent in
civic :md church life spoke. The chairman was the High Commissioner, Sir ’William Clark, who was accompanied by Lady Clark. The vas , c ,. ( , Vv .j present, said Sir William had come to pay tribute to the long and able service the Archbishop and Mrs Phelps had given to the Church of the Province ot South .Africa. The Governor-General. Str Patrick Duncan, said the occasion was one of sadness because it signified the break of an association which had always
been held by ties of friendship and affection, and one of gratitude because the Archbishop and Mrs Phelps were leaving memories of a long period of service and example, of lives inspired by the Christian faith. Archbishop Phelps, who has spent 2/ years in Cape Towm, as vicar, bishop and latterly as archbishop., is returning to England. He is a brother |of Mrs S. Fletcher, Masterton.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1938, Page 2
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