METHODIST CONFERENCE
RETIRING PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. By TelesraDli.—Press Association. . Auckland, February 24. Ihe fourth annual Methodist Conference of New Zealand opened to-night. Jhe Rev. John Dawson, the retiring President, in his address said the record ot new properties for the year included the purchase of 16 sites, the croction of eight churches, three parsonages, and three, Sunday school halls, and the enlargement of throe other churches, and over £6000 had bffen raised for foreign missions. Referring to the youth of the Church, lie said that the really alarming tiling about 'them was the. fact that their Bands of Hope work was so generally liegle:ted. Of course they all believed in temperance, and most of their people practised abstinence, but in the children!s name he asked, "Why are not more working at it?" Referring to the number of Methodists who had volunteered, he said he had the names of 2354 men who had, bsen accepted before the end of last year. The list, however, was' incomplete. v Officers for the ensuiiig year wero elected as follow:—President, Rev. A. 0: Lawry, Ponsonb.v; vice-president, Mr. C. Winstone, Auckland; secrsiery, Uev. AV. A. Sinclair, re-e!ect;ed.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2704, 25 February 1916, Page 3
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190METHODIST CONFERENCE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2704, 25 February 1916, Page 3
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