METHODIST CHURCH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 389, 14 March 1908, Page 2

METHODIST CHURCH.

Arrival of the New Minister.

The Rev. P. J. Mairs successor to the Rev. Jas. Southern, has arrived in Foxtou and will conduct his first service at the local Methodist Church to-morrow. Prior to leaving his last circuit in the Waikato, where he laboured with great success for the past three years, he was presented with three purses of sovereigns from members of his congregations at Hamilton, Fancourt and Cambridge. The Waikato Argus in its report of the farewell social at Hamilton says, inter alia “The speakers referred to the excellent work done by Mr Mairs during the 1 three years he had been stationed’in Hamilton, and while regretting the reverend gentleman’s departure, joined in wishing him God speed in his new station at Foxten, During the proceedings a presentation was made to the Rev. Mr Mairs, consisting of a purse of sovereigns; while the members of Mr Mairs’ family, namely, Miss Mairs and Masters Frank and John Mairs, were also the recipients of tokens of regard and affection from the members of the Church. The Rev. Mairs returned thanks for the presentations, and expressed his gratitude to the people of Hamilton for the many kindnesses extended to him and his family during their residence in the town. He reviewed the work of the Primitive Methodist Church in Hamilton since its inception, when services were held in the Volunteer Hall in, Knox Street, up to the time of entering the new Church erected in London Street. Preachi g stations have been opened in many districts in and around Hamilton and Cambridge. Mr Mairs bespoke for his successor the same kindly feeling that had attended his ministry during his sojourn among them.