METHODIST CONFERENCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 282, 18 February 1928, Page 4

METHODIST CONFERENCE

EXTENDING THE CHURCH NEW MINISTERS ADMITTED Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. At the Methodist Conference to-day the Rev. L. B. Neale moved that the conference, early in its session, appoini a committee including departmental officers of the Church, to consider the best method of consolidating and extending Methodism throughout the Dominion, the committee to give attention to such matters as the establishment of secondary schools, the training of religious educational instructors subsidising circuit movements and district extensions, and the augmentation of ministerial stipends.

The motion was carried, and a large committee was appointed.

On the recommendation of the examination committee, eight students were received for theological training. The following were admitted as ministers in full connection with conference: Messrs. Moses Ayrton, John Bailey, Hubert G. Brown. Herbert L. Feibeg, Harry S. Kings, Robert McGregor, Oliver S. Pearn, Herbert Spencer and Cecil Taylor.

It was decided that ten preachers remain on probation.

The following were received by conference as ministers on probation: Messrs. John D. Grocott, C. A. Hailwood, F. J. Handy', F. H. Hayman and H. H. Jeffreys. Two Maori preachers were admitted as native ministers. It was resolved that conference be recommended to appoint a district home missionary committee to consider Church extension in Auckland citv and suburbs.