30 MARCH 1934, Page 6

To appoint the Vicar of Plymouth (Archdeacon Dawkes) as Suffragan

Bishop of Plymouth in place of the late Dr. Masterman may seem on the face of it unimagin- ative, though on personal grounds the choice is good. Actually the reasons are obvious. There is no stipend, or at any rate, no stipend worth talking about, for the Suffragan Bishop, who must therefore hold a substantial living to enable him to subsist at all. Dr. Masterman was Rector of Devonport and was straitened in cir- cumstances as no man in his position ever ought to be. If it is true, as has lately been contended, that money is always forthcoming for a new diocese, the sooner a separate see of Plymouth—long desired and expected— is created the better.