PITT STREET CHURCH.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 246, 17 October 1925, Page 11

PITT STREET CHURCH.

REV. LEONARD DALLY

Special services are being arranged at Pitt Street Methodist Church for the last Sunday in November, when it is expected the new minister, Rev. Leonard Dally, will have arrived. Tbe president of the Methodist Conference is to receive Mr. Dally as a New Zealand MethSdist minister at a special fraction, to be held on Wednesday, DeeemT.er 2. The president of the Methodist Conference, Rev. John S. Ritson, wrote to Mr. Dally as follows: "1 want to send you a few personal lines to wish you well and to assure you of a feeling of love in my heart, which oceans between us cannot quench. 1 know Auckland and have preached in the chapel to which you are going. You will be very happy there. Auckland, and indeed Now Zealand, are glorious places and the people would he hard to beat anywhere in the world. Many of us will follow your work with deep interest. Let us pray for each other. A safe voyage and every blessing to you." The Rev. George H. MkrNeal, of Wesley Chapel. City Road, wrote as follows: "I ought to have been brought up in New Zealand. My father emisrrated there in ISBO and is buried at Hamilton. Mv mother and the rest of ns were within a week of sailing when the news of his death came, so that I have always been interested in New Zealand. May you have a safe nnd comfortable voyage and a great ministry."