The Henson Journals

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Thursday, June 14th, 1923.

Visitation of the Chester–le–Street Rural Deanery.

I celebrated the Holy Communion in the parish church at 8.45 a.m. About 30 clergy communicated. At 10.45 a.m. they assembled again in the Church for the Litany and a devotional address. Then followed in the Institute the discussion of the Marriage Law. Then lunch in the Institute. In the afternoon I motored into Newcastle, and had my hair cut ; then I was taken to see the Cottage Hospital which has been established in the Rectory as the War memorial for Whickham. At 7 p.m. I addressed about 500 parochial church councillors in the parish hall, & then returned to Auckland.

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