METHODIST CHURCH

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3013, 26 February 1917, Page 4

METHODIST CHURCH

NEW ZEALAND CONFERENCE SATURDAY'S BUSINESS Saturday morning's session of the Methodist Conference iu Wellington was presided over by tho Rev. W. A. Sinclair. A number of alterations and divisions of districts and cirouits were decided upon. It was decided to appoint a home missionary to Wellington South. Tho following resolutions were adopted:— That an ordained minister bo stationed at Whakatano instead of a homo missionary, with a grant of £200, and that the stipend be not less than_£2oo. That a probationer or homo missionary bo appointed to tbo Masterton circuit to work Kuripuni. ■ That a married minister he appointed to the Teviot Street (Invorcargill) circuit as a separate cirouit. That no second agent he appointed at Waimate this year. Mr. W. Dobbs (Sydenham, Ghristchurch) was appointed a lay member of the Stationing Committee. _ Owing to war conditions, it was decided that tho- Theological Training College at Dunholme, Auckland, . bo given up this year, that tho property be rotamed, that the principal (Rev. C. H. Garland) retain tho title, and bo appointed to a circuit in Auckland, and that students unfit for military service be employed in ordinary church work. _ ' j Tho resignation of the Rev. Richard Wilson, who has been without pastora| charge for three years on account of ill-health, was received and, accepted. It was decided to send the Rev. Mr. Wilson a suitable expression of appreciation of his services. The name of the Rev. A. B. Chappell, M.A. (who has become regffctrar nf the Auckland College of the Now Zealand University), was placed upon the list of ministers without pastoral charge.

Tha Roy. H. Ryan, of the British Primitive jChurchj jvas_re-

ceived into the New Zealand Church on financial probation for one year and medical probation for three years. The Rev. C. Sims, who desires to be transferred to tho New South Wales Conference, is to exchange with the Rev. H. Andrews on that conference. It waß decided to cable to the Victorian Conference to see if a suitable exchange might be arranged for the Rev. W. Beckett (Hutt circuit), with a member of that conference. The following probationary ministers were admitted to full connexion, and will be ordained to-morrowßobert B. Gosnell, Percy Battey, and Harold T. Peat.