Harold Purchas was Archdeacon of Timaru from 1928 to 1930.
He was educated at the University of New Zealand and ordained in 1896.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p 1055: Oxford, OUP, 1930 After a curacy in Mount Somers he held incumbencies in Christchurch The Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12410, 25 January 1906, Page 7 and Geraldine before his appointment as Archdeacon.St Thomas' Anglican Church, Woodbury South Canterbury, N.Z.
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