CATHEDRAL APPEAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1939, Page 10

CATHEDRAL APPEAL

BISHOP OF WELLINGTON WELL PLEASED. GOOD RESPONSE BY DIOCESE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “I am going away feeling extremely proud of a diocese which has risen to a great call so splendidly and which means to go on until the objective of the appeal is finally reached,” declared the Bishop of Wellington, the Rt Rev H. St Barbe Holland, when referring in an interview yesterday to the progress of the diocesan Centennial and cathedral fund appeal. The bishop will leave next week on a health recruiting trip to England. The diocese, with under 60 parishes, every one of which was responsible for the maintenance of the Church’s work within the parish, the bishop said, had in nine months contributed nearly £30,000 in cash, in addition to more than twice that amount in promises, for the centennial appeal. “I think that is a feat of which the whole of the Anglican communion can be justifiably proud,” he added. He hoped to return to New Zealand fully restored in health to prosecute the project with renewed vigour. Bishop Holland indicated that on arriving in England he would get into touch with the committee already set up in London to further the cathedral appeal. The committee comprised the formei’ Governor-General of the Dominion, Viscount Bledisloe, the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London, Mr W. J. Jordan, and some five other prominent New Zealanders in London. The committee’s function was to bring tne appeal before the notice of all New Zealanders in England. Its work, the bishop said, had been held up to some extent by the international situation and by the absorption of England in its immediate problems.

“I shall look forward to making personal contact with the members of the committee,” he said, “to see what can be done in order to interest those in England who have been in New Zealand in the appeal. I am going to do that as soon as I land, I hope. “I am going Home for a rest and under orders to do no unnecessary speaking or preaching, but naturally I shall be doing my best in a quiet way to help forward our projects here.” . The bishop further indicated that no wider appeal than that was- contemplated in England, for the Church there was engaged on its own projects and in extensive missionary work.