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Rh Dean is the Brigade Chaplain). Contemporaneously with the opening of the great Manchester Ship Canal, an effort was made to establish a mission for sailors and others. For several years the Rev. S. M. Young was the Chaplain, doing admirable service in temporary premises. A permanent home is now about to be opened near to the docks. Church people of both sexes and of different ranks in Society have associated themselves with this enterprise. At the present moment the clergy and laity are engaged in a movement set on foot in Ancoats, a manufacturing district of Manchester, for the better housing of the poor. A committee was appointed at the last Diocesan Conference to take the whole subject into consideration and to report to the next Conference. All this proves that the Church is really taking an active interest in the housing of the working classes. The local Sanitary Association is a body in which the clergy are largely concerned.

The Dean, who expressed his strong conviction that both the Roman Catholics (chiefly among the Irish) and the Nonconformists were all eagerly zealous and doing active work of a religious character in Manchester and South Lancashire generally, was then asked, “But what of the Jewish community?”

“Between my own residence the Deanery and the Cathedral,” Dr Maclure replied, “there