Consecrated
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New Bishop Is
In The Solomons
Honiara, May 30.
HERE, to-day, for the first time in Melanesia, a Bishop of the Anglican Church was con secrated. The Rev. Alfred Thomas Hill, an Englishman, who has spent many years as headmaster of the famous Pawa Boys’ School (early training-g round of Melanesian churchmen) was to-day created Bishop of Melanesia.
Among those who attended the ceremony were the Archbishop of New Zealand (Most Rev. R. H.
Owen), Bishop Strong and Bishop Hand, of New Guinea, and the Bishop of Dunedin, NZ (Rt. Rev.
A. H. Johnston).
The Rt. Rev. S. G. Caulton was recently compelled, by reasons of health, to give up his work as Bishop of Melanesia, and retire to New Zealand. The Melanesian clergy in the Solomons (numbering 83, and 80 per cent, of them natives) then asked the NZ Church authorities to select the Rev. A. T. Hill. His fine work has already been recognised, in a decoration (MBE) by the Gov ernment Chief-Pilot F. Ladd, of Fiji Air ways, was in Sydney early June, in connection with the despatch of 2 Drover planes for use in Fiji.