Bishop Kempthorne's
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25th Anniversary
ON March 4 this year the Rt. Rev. L.
S. Kempthorne will have attained the 25th anniversary of his conse cration as Bishop in Polynesia. His headquarters are in Suva, Fiji where he is well-known and highly esteemed.
Bishop Kempthorne is a New Zea lander, and is a member of a well-known clerical family. He took his degree at Oxford in 1914, and .later went as a missionary to West Africa for two years.
This was followed by a few years in Eng land. In 1920 he returned to the mission field, this time to the Federated Malay States. He was still there when the New Zealand Bishops chose him to succeed Bishop Twitchell as Bishop in Polynesia.
Bishop Kempthorne’s 25 years’ service constitutes a record unequalled by any Anglican Bishop in the South Pacific.