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Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1918, Page 5

.A sum of £IOOO, being pait o£ tile winnings in Australia of the mart i Deaert Gold, lias already been forward? ,: i ed by Mr. and Mrs T- H. Lowry, of Hawke's Bay, to be devoted to the bene4 fit of the soldiers' ward at the Napier j Hospital. The remarkable spectacle of piokets at t a church was witnessed at ferompton, •' near Adelaide, on Sunday week, follow- ' ing upon trouble which has arisen owing to the action of the Methodist Co'iU'lence in deciding to remove the Rev Albert Morris from the charge of the loiyil church after two years' service and l against the almost unanimous wisli of * the congregation (sljs the Sydney Morning Ilerald). On the occasion o£ the referendum Mr. Morris took the ~ platform as an anti-conscriptiomst notwithstanding that' most of the Methodist ministers ardently supported com- > pulsory military service- Mr. Morris f had been allotted no church elsewhere. >' ifireat indignation prevails in Brompton A service conducted, by a minister from . - another circuit was attended toy only thirteen worshippers, and Sunday school 'had to be abandoned. The stewards / : f refused to officiate. Members express- 5 ed a determination to stand 'by fiutojc against the confMto«« £ ..... <.'fl