METHODIST CHURCH

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25954, 7 November 1949, Page 3

METHODIST CHURCH

APPOINTMENTS OF MINISTERS

(New Zealand Press Association.) NAPIER, November 5. Appointments of ministers were made by the annual conference of the Methodist Church of New Zealand today, as follows (the present charge is in parenthesis):— Auckland Central, the Rev. R. Thornley (Invercargill); Avondale, the Rev. G. E. Brown (Whangarei); Ruawai. the Rev. J. A. Dalglish (Paeroa); Whangarei, the Rev. J. H. Allen (New Plymouth); Paeroa, the Rev. J. Dennis (Stratford); Waihi, the Rev. A. F. Attwood (Kaikohe); Matamata, the Rev. J. M. Blight (Riccarton); Tauranga, the Rev. A. T. Kent (Raglan); Whakatane, the Rev. W. C. Jenkin (Pictoh); New Plymouth, the Rev. E. T. Olds (Auckland Central); Stratford, the Rev. H. Moore (Ruawai); Hastings, the Rev. J. Silvester (Greymouth); Ashhurst-Bunnythorpe, the Rev. R. McGregor (Greendale, Christchurch); Miramar, the Rev. L. V. Willing (Eketahuna); Upper Hutt, the Rev. L. P. Schroeder (first appointment); Grey-town-Featherston, the Rev. C. D. Clark (first appointment); Eketahuna, the Rev. C. H. Kendon (Hokitika); Richmond, the Rev. C. H. Bell (Miramar); Picton. the Rev. C. T. J. Luxton (Solomon Islands).

Greymouth, the Rev. A. P. Dorrian (Dunedin North); Hokitika, the Rev. W. E. Moore (Onawa); Cashmere, the Rev. A. F. Collins (Air Force chaplain); Shirley-Richmond, the Rev. R. E. Patchett (Richmond, Nelson); Woolston, the Rev. W. L. Divers (Upper Hutt); Riccarton, the Rev. C. R. Taylor (Ashhurst); Bryndwr, Christchurch, the Rev. B. Gordon (first appointment); Papanui. the Rev. A. E. Waite (Melbourne); Greendale. Christchurch, the Rev. J. B. Dawson (Shirlev-Richmond): Oamaru. the Rev. G. R. Harris (Hastings); Dunedin Central, the Rev. H. I. K. Honper (Oamaru): Dunedin North, the Rev. W. S. Neal (Waihi); Invercargill Central. the Rev. A. R. Witheford (Cashmere); Roviana. Solomon Islands, the Rev. F. H. Woofield (first appointment) .