METHODIST CHURCH.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 57, 8 March 1921, Page 6

METHODIST CHURCH.

DOMINION CONFERENCE. HOME MISSION STATION'S. (By Telegrnpfi. —Tees As!oc?at!on.) WEL-LIiNOTON, Monday. At the Mebhtodwt Conference to-day th f . cinema, and- its effects on the com- . munitv came under Teview. Tt vrae reported that the theatre managers de-l clared that tiie public demanded a. paxI t'cular class of film. One speaker pro- ' I tested against thU declaration and paid . I this taste had been created Vv tihe 1 moving picture l>v = i.ness. The conference expressed a d-esire that the utmost cere should be exercised in Toward to the pietirres rrfe-ased, and lieartilv supported j the Minister -of Internal Affairs in any taction he may take. A short rliscu*sion took place on tTh? I "Bible in schools question. It was rei solved -that a deevskxn as to the future ■policy of tho Churcii oti t'n-e movement be deferred until the next conference. The following were elected statist'eal secretaries:—Auckland, Rev. J. H. Haslara: South Auckland, Rev. J. X>. M<-Ar-jthur; Ilawke's Bay and Mamawatu, Rev. 'C. K. Taranaki and Wan- ; jra-nui Rev. A. TiversMw; Wellington, ."Rev. F. T. .Read: Xel?on. Rev. ,T. R. |N>lson: iX-orth Canterbury, Rev. E. I). I'Patcnett; Otago and Southland, Rev P. IJ. <"'OKST»m. The Enal 'home mission station sheet I was pa.-sed as follo-w-s: —Bombay, ,T. T. j.Hooper. Rchia, T. Flower. Port Albert, jH. C. Orcihurd. <'oroma.ndel, G. H. Cute. l Heleneville, F. J. 'H-and. Kaukapakapa, I Jf. Spencer. Bay of Islands, J. H. Allen. iK-aikolie, R. Wea-rne. llavvene, H. Bateup. 1 TCaeo, E. Ran-=an. Mangonui. C. Bycroft. j iHikuTia.ng', E. Eaxwater. Matanoi, ,T. I Richards. H-untly. P. "Bridge. Tekakatone, P. Mais. To Puke, J. Common. Matamata, W. Parker. Ohura, A. i Haynes. Nga-ruawahia.S.Keen. Tahuna, JH. " Payne. Midhirst, A. Wliiteford. • Okato, "C. Aker. .Patea, W. W-.tson. . (VVangunui Jvast, G. lla.rris. iPorirua,. mF. Edmundson. Norsewood, F. C. Pace.] I Otaki, N". Ch-allenger. Havelotk F. Bat- , cup Murchison, J. Boothroyd. Granity \-A. Bereon. Hokifta, J. F. Jack, Motu- ; oka, C. 'W. Brown. Waddington, J. Belj liha-vv. Ha-n-arden, H. S. Kings. Oxford, I <'. Ihinoan. Methven, J. Field, ila.vfield, F. P. Kellow. Mosgiel, F. O. Frost. ! Lawrence, T. Featherstone. Cromwell, iJ. Bayliss. Moon Hfil, I. Pearn. Riverton, H. V'owell. Xighteapa, W. E. Heep. "Kdendaie. C. H. Bridgman.