The Henson Journals

Friday, April 24th, 1931.

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I motored into Durham with Ella. She attended a County Nursing Committee in the Shire Hall, and then joined me in the Cosin Library, where I was presiding over the annual meeting of the Preventive Rescue Association. When this was over, I went to the Castle, and instituted Bell to the united parishes of Dinsdale with Sockburn, licensed 2 assistant curates, and gave a preachers's licence to a dingy looking parson from Canada. Then Charles and I lunched together in my room. At 2 p.m. the Revd Lewis Henry Webster, also a colonially ordained clergyman, came to complain that he was wickedly depreived of £2:13:0, due to him from the Vicar of Brandon. I noted the particulars of his plea, said that I must hear the said Vicar's defence before I could determine its justice, & promised to send him my decision.

At 2.30 p.m. Moulsdale came to discuss the hateful business in Newcastle, but, though we talked much, I received little light, & came away more perplexed than ever. At 4.15 p.m. the Bishop of Jarow came to tea, & talked about diocesan business. Then Charles drove me back to Auckland.

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