Ceremony At Site Of
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Suva's New Cathedral
SUVA, March 27.
THE foundation stone of the Lady Chapel of the new Anglican Cathe dral of the Diocese of Polynesia, at Suva, was laid on March 25 by the acting Governor (Mr. A. F. R. Stoddart). (The foundation of the cathedral itself was laid by a former Governor, Sir Harry Luke, in 1940).
The order of procession from the old cathedral to the site of the new was: Churchwardens, with their vergers; the Cross, carried by a Fijian returned soldier (L. Naigulevu), and attended by two Solo mon Islanders; the Choir; the Vestry; the People; the Municipal Council, repre sented by the Mayor (Mr. Alport Barker), and Crs. Cheng, Gopalan and Grant; the architect, and other technical advisers; the Lay Members of Chapter, the Pres byterian and Methodist clergy: the Dio cesan clergy in copes; the Acting Governor (Mr. A. F. R. Stoddart) and his ADC; the Bishop, in cope and mitre, car rying his Staff, attended by two deacons of-honour.