METHODIST CONFERENCE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10581, 12 March 1912, Page 5

METHODIST CONFERENCE

STRIKING MILITARY CAMPS ON SUNDAYS. (By Telegraph—Frets Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Night. The Methodist Conference has received the following reply from General Godley in reply to, its resolution on the subject:— "Am issuing instructions to endeavour to obviate the necessity to strike military camps or travelling on Sundays." The reply was received with warm expressions of approval. The balance sheet of the Wellington Education Trust shows the receipts to be £11,616 6s Id. There is a balance to credit of "£3 175..

QUESTION OF SEPARATION. AUCKLAND, Last Night. At the Methodist Conference ' _ today, the question of Maori missions ivas discussed at some length, various recommendations being made. The Wanganui Synod recommended "that the conference be requested to bring before the Government the urgent need of making provision for 1 the registration of the births and deaths of Maori people, and so remove an injustice under which these people are living." Eventually resolutions were passed referring the matter to the Mission Committee. Mr. J. A. Fleshy reported that in air the States in Australia, with the exemption of, West Australia, Bills, authorising "the o£;the NewZealand Church from tie Church of. Australasia, had , b£en passed. The profeaible cost > would be £250. .The: Bill in West Australia would probably be passed this- year. .. , k ... committee" was appointed to prepare a superannuation scheme for Home Missionaries.