METHODIST CHURCH
ELECTION OF PRESIDENT FOR 1940.. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, February 17. The Rev Leslie B. Neale, 8.A., F.R.G.S., Dunedin, was elected president of the Methodist Church of New Zealand for 1940 at the opening of the annual conference of the church in Christchurch this evening. Mr Neale will take office at the next annual conference. The Rev W. A. Burley, St Albans, was re-elected secretary of the conference for 1940. After three years’ training in Trinity Methodist Theological College in Auckland, Mr Neale began his work in the ministry of the Church in Ashhurst in 1911 and was stationed at Edgeware Road, Christchurch, Greytown before giving three years’ service in the Great War. Mr Neale continued his ministry in Stratford for some years on his return to New Zealand and was then stationed in St Albans, Christchurch, for seven years. He has been in charge of the central mission in Dunedin for the last eight years, and is chairman of the Otago-Southland district, an office he has held for a year.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 February 1939, Page 4
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