METHODIST CHURCH.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1920, Page 3

METHODIST CHURCH.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE. AUCKLAND, March 3. The New Zealand Methodist Conference to-day resolved to endeavour to raise £10,750 or foreign mission work in 1920. The accounts of this mission showed an income of £11,225; sums remitted to the Australasian Board and disbursed on its account totalled £9314 ; additions to working capital fund, including legacies and special donations, were £744, making the fund up tr £526. A motion that New Zealand contribute £10,750 towards the funds of i’e Australasian Alission was carried unanimously. The need for more workers was emphasised in the report of tlie Foreign Missions Committee, which stated that mo minister had been sent by the Methodist Conference for missionary work during the year. There were many indications that, tlie chief difficulty in connexion with the foreign field would not be finance but workers. It was‘agreed to support, a proposal to transfer to the Methodist Church of Now Zealand from the Australian Methodist Church, the mission field m tlie northern portion of the Solonr n Islands, in 1922. 'file first draft of the, proposed changes in the present staffing of Home Missions Stations was approved. The draft includes the following: Nelson district—Wakefield, one wanted; Millorton, one wanted. North Canterbury—AA’addington, life. Kings; Hnwarden, J. Belsliaw ; Oxford, C. Duncan. Otago district—Mosgiel, F. E. Foot; Kaitangata, J. Field; Lawrence, L W. ayliss; Cromwell, S. Keen. Southland district—Tnatapere, T. W. Fcaterstone. [ It; was stated that there; were twenty-one Home Mission .stations vacant throughout the Dominion, and so far only three applications had been ’ received for that branch of work i For tho purpose of repatriating a ’ number of German Methodist, mission, aris and missionary sistrs working at Nw Britain, the conference without discussion, approved of tho inclusion of £1590 in the year’s financial estimates.