THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 11, 1937
NO CHURCH FUNDS
30
ARE AVAILABLE FOR QUEEN'S "FANCY SCHEMES”
The misconception that the fit now being enjoyed by benefices Church has at its free disposal vast as a result of the Commissioners funds for any good purpose is cor-operations would be reached." rected by Sir George Middleton, The abolition under the Tithe writing in a pamphlet published by Act of 1936. of the tithe rent- the Church Assembly.
charge-from which about a third of the Commissioners' income from property originated-will involve a loss of about £50,000 a year.
Sir George, who is First Estates Commissioner and Chairman of the Finance and Estates, Investments and Tithe Committees of Queen
Further loss, Sir George Middle- Anne's Bounty, says.
ton states, may be anticipated "The Church has considerable from the possible nationalisation funds, but they are mostly trust of coal royalties. funds, in no way available for Fancy schemes; and they are re
quired for purposes inseparable from the very existence of the Church as at present constituted." £16,000,000 FUND
HOME SECRETARY'S
PRISON TOUR
Visit To Women's Gaol
Funds now held by the Governors
Sir Samuel Hoare, the Home by Queen Anne's Bounty, either in Secretary, is making, a series of stock or money, for the endowment visits to the principal prisons to of 12,000 benefices, amount to see for himself how the British sys- £16,000,000, the pamphlet states. tem works. He has been shown There is generally a surplus from around Holloway and Pentonville the income on Queen Anne's Bounty gaols. after satisfying the obligations of the Governors and paying the costs of administration. On December 31, 1936, there was available,
surplus
35
+
revenue, mately $29,000. This whole amount available 1937 for
approxi-
Dilapidations grants; Urgent improvements to sonage houses; and
At Holloway, a women's prison, he was told that the population was the lowest it has been for many years. There are 601 cells, but at present only 290 are occupied.
Sir Samuel saw the women in the was the workshops making garments and during also air-mail bags. He was inter- ested in the bright flower gardens, which are tended by the prisoners. par-Apart from providing healthy exer- cise, they give the women a fresh interest and sense of competition.
In the hospital were six babies, children of prisoners.
One was born in the prison.
The purchase of fixtures in them. :
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The Ecclesiastical Commissioners funds arise chiefly from ancient
When Sir Samuel arrived at Pen- church estates transferred to them under an act of 1840, and also from tonville the prisoners were coming in from the day's work He saw modern giffs paid to them in
the shops where the men are em- favour of various parishes. The ployed making baskets, mail bags, total income of the Common Fund and ship's fenders, and visited the so formed is roughly $3,000,000 acells, the chapel, and the kitchens. year.
Of this, a little more than half comes from investments, and the remainder from property. The in- come is distributed as follows:-
One-eighth to provide incomes for bishops, deans and chapters and archdeacons;
One-twenty-fourth to adminis- tration and income tax:
Sir Samuel will see Wandsworth Prison. Later he will visit some of the convict prisons, including Dartmoor, and also Borstal institu- tions.
AMERICAN'S FIRST OKAPI
Five-sixths to benefit rectors, Only Three In Captivity
vicars and curates, for pensions and other schemes.
The first African okapi ever to be exhibited in the United States is! now lodged in the Bronz Park Zoo! in New York. It is the most valu-
£2,500,000 A Year Spent "Provision for the cure of souls in populous parishes," the pam- phlet states, "has always been the Commissioners' main trust, So well, have they been able to carry it out that up to the end of 1936 they have been the means of adding to some 9,400 benefices in England property, or money or income, to the value of over £2,500,000 a year it.
"The fall result of this aug. It was purchased mentation work is so immense as to gian be almost incredible.
able and rarest creature in the New York Zoological Society's collection.
The purple brown animal, curious į combization of giraffe and zebra-in: appearance, is about dve feet long- It has arrived from Belgium where Dr. W. Reid Blair, director of the Zoo, went ses
ugtig ago to get
Dr. Blair
"If it were suddenly to be taken state, how away, 70 per cent of the parishes, would in England would suffer. If when mont
it were taken, then loss were
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