The Henson Journals

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Friday, October 24th, 1930.

Charles and I cleared off the accumulated correspondence. Then, I visited the dentist. On my return I had an interview with the Revd William Henry Sydney Wood, a clergyman who had worked in Assam for the last 8 years, and now, mainly on account of his wife's health, desired to work in England. He is a heavy–looking fellow, "educated" at Kelham, and inconveniently deaf. How can a deaf man be adequate to the demands of a pastoral ministry? He stayed to lunch. I was not very encouraging, but I advised him to call on the Rector of Jarrow, on the chance that he might think him suitable for Hebburn.

After lunch I motored to Darlington, and had a long conversation with the Rural Dean (Cosgrave), and the Vicar of S. Cuthbert's (Drury), on the difficult question of the use to which the money (£3,200) raised by the sale of the schools ought to be applied. After tea, I returned to Auckland, arriving just as General & Mrs Surtees were departing. They had with them their son–in–law, Dodds.

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