METHODIST CONFERENCE.
PEPORT OF BUSINESS. By TelegTaph.—Press Association. Wellington, Feb. 28. The Methodist Conference decided not to alter the Btatus of the Ashburton circuit,' but to appoint a married home missionary in place of a married minister. The following circuits due to take married ministers were relieved for another year:—Auckland East, Paeroa, Opotiki, Taihape, Waimarino, St. Albans, Timaru, and Dundas street, Dunedin. It was agreed not to alter for the present the status of the Foxton district. The Revs Joseph Blight and George T. Marshall were placed on the supernumerary list for anotlror year. Ministers added to the supernumerary list were the Rev. T, W. Newbold and James Clover. Owing to the shortage of men the Rev. C. Abemethy withdrew his application. The accounts of the foreign missions showed the receipts for the year of £5521. 'j The matter of the New Zealand Con-, ference, taking oyer a separate mission | district in the Pacific was deferred until after the war. The president, the Rev. W. A. Sinclair, was unanimously appointed organising secretary for foreign missions in New Zealand, the work to be taken up in 1919.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 February 1917, Page 3
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