Synod committee THE AUSTRALIAN THE AUSTRALIAN studies the Primacy CHURCH HE Committee set up by whether the See of the Primate The RI, Rev. R. G. Arthur, Bishop The Rev, Graham Jeffery, has been should be fixed. It was noted of Grafton, N.S.W., has recently left appointed assist ant curate at St. General Synod in Sept- RECORD T that under the present canon the for an extended overseas visit. As well Michael's, Wollongong. N.O.W. (Syd- ember, 1966, to investigate as participating in the Lambeth Con- ney). Primate can be any Diocesan The paper for Church of ference Bishop Arthur will spend some On Sunday. February 18, the Bishop all aspects of the Primacy time working in parishes and dioceses in Bishop and in theory could be England people — Catholic, CHURCH RECORD of Bathurst, the Right Reverend E. K. the U.S.A. and England. He is ac- Leslie, commissioned Mr Ronald Alan in the Church of England in any part of Australia. The Apostolic, Protestant and companied by his wife. Archdeacon 3. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND NEWSPAPER — EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION Webb as Field Officer for Youth within next Primate will be chosen by Reformed V. Robinson, of Lismore, will be Ad- the Department of Promotion for the in Australia held its second ministrator of the diocese In the Diocese of Bathurst. a Board of Electors from among Subscription $2.50 per year. Registered at the G.P.O., Sydney, for transmission by post Bishop's absence. meeting in St. Mark's No. 1409—March 21, 1968 Printed by John Fairfax and the Diocesan Bishops. Editorial and Business: 511 as a newspaper. Sons Ltd., Broadway, Sydney. Price 10 cents Rev. Ron McKinney was ordained Rev. Hugh R. G. Oakes has been Library, Canberra, in Feb- priest at St. Cyprian's, Narrabri appointed the new Registrar of the Dio- The committee came to no Kent St., Sydney. Phone: (N.S.W.), on February 4. cese of Gippsland. He will take up his new duties as from May 1, 1968. but ruary. firm conclusions. It will be pre- 61-2975. Office hours: 10 On February 2, in St. Peter's he will bep resent at the Session of the Members of the committee senting an interim report to am. to 4 p.m. Issued fort- Cathedral, Adelaide, Bishop T. T. Reed Syn od in April. Mr Oakes, 40, is mar- attending the meeting were: nightly, on alternate Thurs- ordained the following men:— ried and Ins five children. At present Standing Committee on its find- he is the Rector of Berridale and Rural The Right Rev. F. R. Arnott, ings to date, but its final report days. Copy deadline Thurs- Deacons.—Raymond F. Ayles (St. Dean (Canberra-Goulburn). Peter's, Glenelg), Ralph D. Ferrer (Good Coadjutor Bishop of Melbourne and recommendations will be day preceding date of issue, Shepherd, Plumpton), George A. GatenbY The Rev. E. D. Cameron,' B.D., was AUCKLAND LOOKS AHEAD Diocese. The Right Rev. C. A. made to the next meeting of but earlier receipt preferable. (Christ Church, Mt. Gambier), Kenneth the guest preacher at the Armidale Warren, Coadjutor Bishop of General Synod in 1969. D. Hall (St. Augustine's, Unley), Francis Diocesian Synod. HE Editor spent a day in Auckland, N.Z,, just recently and took time off N. Lewis (St. David's, Burnside), Rev. Theo J. Hay Canberra and Goulbum. The Graham Roper (St. Barnabas', Croydon), At this Synod the man, Th.L., was elected Canon. Ven, G. R. Delbridge, General T from sight-seeing to talk to a few key people about the Anglican Philip H. E. Thomas (Holy Trinity, Adelaide). The Rev. Andrew W. Hayman Secretary of the Primatial Reg- Church in this largest city of the land. has accepted nomination for. the Priests.—Robert W. Duffield (SL istry, The Very Rev. J. N. Falk- Austinmer-Thirroul parish, his induction Church marks Coral Sea fight Richard's, Lockleys), John M. Edwards being dated for March 29. ingham, Dean of Newcastle. Dr One-quarter of New Zea- ate of Sydney University. After The incomplete Holy Trinity (St. Cuthbert's, Prospect), David M. C. A new church to he known Battle of the Coral Sea was made Hand (Christ Church, Mt. Gambler), Canon L. G. Manger Rector of Man- D. W. Dockrill, Department of land's pop u la lion lives in Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, he spent Cathedral, pure Gothic in its Coral Sea Memorial David W. A. Keay (EdwarcIstoWn-Ascot jimup (Banbury), has been appointed Philosophy, University of New- as the because of the unique relation- Auckland and you can well many years in Manchester until massive, truncated glory, lies Park), Jeffrey M. L. Parsons (St. Rector of Cranbrook and rural dean Anglican Church is to be erected ship in Wee Waa between Paul's, Naracoorte), Barrie N. B, Sibley of Plantagent. castle. Mr E. A. Judge, Depart- believe that it is among the his appointment as Dean of Nel- opposite Bishopscourt and I ment of History, University of by the Church of England at Americans and Australians who Rev, R. J. Felber, assistant at Mt. largest cities in the world in son and has now been six years questioned him about its com- Bishop Reed also admitted Brian E. Hawthorn (Perth), has been appointed Sydney. Mr J. Munro, Attorney- Wee Waa, to commemorate the are working side by side in the in Auckland. area as you survey the whole pletion. Newman to the Diaconate and Ian A. to Port Hedland (North-West Austra- General's Department, Can- Battle of the Coral Sea. cotton and irrigation industry in Hardy as Priest by Letters Dimissory lia), supported by B.C.A. At present, no work appears berra. Mr R. T, St. John, Regis- B will be built on the site of the district. of it from Mt. Eden on a GOTHIC from the Lord Bishop of Willochra. Then Dean of Hobart, Very Rev to be going on, with only sanc- trar, Dibcese of Brisbane. the existing Wee Was Church, fine day. The Rev. J. G. Steele, B.Sc., Ph.D., E. M. Webber, left for England on TOGETHER CATHEDRAL tuary and choir complete but TILL., has returned to the diocese of February 28 and expects to return on The Right Reverend R. C. The churchwardens of St. Two years ago, rain obscured I last met him at Australia's Brisbane following two years' study at April 28. The battle of the Coral Sea without furnishings. One televis- Kerle, Bishop of Armidale, was Augustine's Church, at Wee everything, but this day it lay at first group life laboratory in Mel- the University of Harvard, U.S.A., and Rev. J. Small, formerly of Sydney, was a naval engagement of ed service has been held in this at Queen's' University, Ontario, Canada, is to be Deacon Assistant at Holy Cross unable to be present. Waa, in announcing the project my feet with its vast ramifica- bourne's Dandenongs in 1958. where he took up a year's Fellowship in World War II that saw Ameri- area but meanwhile and until (Canberra-Goulburn). Information from overseas recently, said immediate steps tions and with the Tasman al- Astronomy. cans and Australians fighting He had scarcely changed. He is a the seventies, worship continues • 'the Cathedral site, Auckland, N.Z. Rev. P. J. Harvie, Chaplain of Grim- Churches, particularly from the most meeting the Pacific at one On February would be taken to engage an little greyer but in the mid- in the old St. Mary's Cathedral 24 the following men wade House Melbourne Grammar together in a major battle that were ordained in St, David's Cathedral. American Episcopal Church, was architect and have sketch plans narrow point. fifties, School, is to be Precentor of Holy resulted in victory for the allied he is obviously healthy opposite. It is all some miles evangelical stronghold. It is no lication of the official church Hobart.—Priests: Revs. T. E. Henricks Trinity Cathedral, Wangaratta. carefully studied, with particular of the church prepared for public The Bishop of this large see longer and B. B. Hutchison. Deacons: Messrs forces. and has a firm 'hand on the outside the city proper. so. newspaper, "Church and Rev. J. C. Lipscomb, of Holy Trinity reference to the role of the Prim- exhibit. is Eric Gowing, scion of a well- Fred Harland, B.A.; Rupert Heyes, Wee Waa has one of the reins. His directness in answer St. Matthew's is the inner-city The New Zealand liturgy has People," he said that its board Murray Johnson, ieginald Langlois, Cathedral, Wangaratta, is to be Organist ate, or in the case of the Ameri- known Sydney family and gradu- and Precentor at St. Saviour's Cathedral, Final plans would be drawn, to my questions was impressive. Church and it was formerly an been in experimental use for ,was to meet this month to make Stephen Nicholls and David Saltmarsh. can Church, the Presiding Bis- highest concentrations in Aus- Goulburn (Canberra-Goulburn). and work would commence on much longer than ours in Aus- some decision. He felt that the Rev. J. H. Stephenson, of Minnipa, hop. Movements affecting the tralia of Americans living to- has been appointed Rector of St. Mary's, The Rev. John Baxter, Curate-in-charge the construction of the church tralia and the Bishop told me it paper must just keep going. of the Provisional District of Rooty gether in one community (about Burra, in succession to Rev. G. D. primacy in Churches overseas as soon as two-thirds of the re- had been received very well on Later in the day, another Sibley, who has resigned and will be Hill has been appointed Board of Edu- are being kept under constant 150) and this influenced the residing in Adelaide.