OBITUARY.
REV. G. W. J. SPENCE. A well known Methodist minister, Rev. George William Spence. died at his residence. "Hillcrest." No. 22. Grange Road. Mount Eden, yesterday. He came to New Zealand in ISBO, and was ' ordained here. His first circuit was the Northern Wairoa. Durum his thirty-six venrs' connection with the Nc-.v Zealand Methodist Church .Air Spence has be"en stationed in many pails of thf Dominion, including Devonport, Auckland Knst. aud T-iamea at this end. He wag chosen preside.it of the New Zealand Conference i-i 1011, and retired on superannuation hut year. lJoivti.-c.l is survived In a widow, one son. and two daughters. The son, Captain tl. M. Spence, N.Z.M.C. is at present on a hospital ship, and one daughter is married to the Rev. P. Battev, at present in the ambulance section at Awapuni Camp. i
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 120, 21 May 1917, Page 2
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