Harold Norris

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Harold Geoffrey Norris was an Australian Anglican priest in the mid Twentieth century. [1]

Ordained in 1937, [2] after a curacy in Timaru he held incumbencies at Mount Somers and Hinds, New Zealand before wartime service as a Chaplain to the Forces; and at Riccarton and Ashburton afterwards. He was Archdeacon of Rangiora from 1960 to 1963; and then of Timaru until his death in 1969. [3]

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