Central Otago Presbytery Meets At Alexandra

Lake County Mail, Issue 29, 10 December 1947, Page 1

Central Otago Presbytery Meets At Alexandra

The Moderator, the Rev. Gr. Dallard, presided over a meeting of the Central Otago Presbytery held at Alexandra last Thursday. The Very Rev. H. H. Barton, of Dunedin, and the Rev. I. 13. Wilson, were welcomed by the Moderator. The Presbytery sustained calls to two ministers—from the Becks-Lauder parish to tiie Rev, A. W. Willoughby, ordination to take place on December 10, and from tiie Upper Clutha parish to the Rev. R. S. Miller, ordination to be held on December 12. The Rev. I. B. Wilson, chaplain to the Seacliff Mental Hospital, addressed tbe Presbytery on the work of the hospital, and stressed the serious staff shortage there at present. Mental nursing, he said, was not the easiest work, hence there were considerable compensations and regular relief from work. Following his address, the Presbytery agreed to issue an appeal to young women to consider mental nursing as a Christian vocation. The clerk of Presbytery, the Rev, R. R. Welsh, reported that the Assembly Maintenance of the Ministry Committee had approved grants in aid to Ida Valley (£100), Cromwell (£110), and Becks-Lauder (£115).