MODERATOR NOMINATED
OTAGO MAN CHOSEN PRESBYTERY’S DECISION It was decided to nominate the Rev. John Collie, of Queenstown, Central Otago, for election as the next moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Chuicli of New Zealand at yesterday's meeting of the Auckland Presbytery. Mr. Collie was ordained to the ministry in 1901 after a distinguished career at Otago University, and the Theological College. He was for some time engaged as an assistant minister of Knox Church, Dunedin, subsequently holding the charges of Dunrobin, North Invercargill and Queenstown. He was for a long period exit examiner in New Testament tlieologv at Knox College, and also a lecturer at summer schools for ministers and home missions in various parts of the Dominion. He was recently nominated to the General Assembly for election to the chair of New Testament studies at the Theological Hall, Knox College. The Rev. D. C. Herron, who proposed Mr. Collie's nomination, said that in addition to Mr. Collie's fitness lor the position, it would be a gracious act on the part of the Auckland Presbvtery to support the election of a representative from one of the smaller presbyteries.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 889, 5 February 1930, Page 7
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