The Henson Journals

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Thursday, June 26th, 1924.

I motored to Sunderland, and lunched at the Grant Hotel with a society of business men called 'Rotarians' – rather a laughable farce really but taken with enormous gravity by the members – and there I made a rash, possibly a wicked, speech on Prohibition, which was not, I think, what they either desired or expected. Then I went off to Tanfield, and took part in the funeral of old Canon Archdale. It was a decent, solemn function. I returned to Sunderland, & after tea with the Rector, had an interview with an Ordination candidate; received a deputation about parochial quotas; & met the Committee for Church extension at Cleadon. Then we went back to Auckland.