WESLEY CHURCH GIFT

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 94, 14 January 1939, Page 10

WESLEY CHURCH GIFT

Memorial Fountain To White Missionaries

The trustees of Wesley Church, Taranaki Street, have decided to provide a memorial fountain of the bubble type, to be erected on the Manners Street reserve, to commemorate the first Christian service conducted by white missionaries, the Revs. J. H. Bumby ' and John Hobbs, on June 9. 1839. at Te Aro pa, Wellington.

Te Ard pa was situated almost on the spot now known as Manners Stree-. reserve, wbicli is but a short distance from Wesley Church. The arrangements provide for the fountain being readv for handing over to the city at a service which is to be held at the reserve on the afternoon of Sunday, June 11, to mark the hundredth ans*versary of the service conducted there by the' Revs. J. H. Bumby and John Hobbs. The Rev. Angus Mcßean, Ashburton, president of the Methodist Conference, is to hand over the fountain, which will be received on behalf of the city b.v the mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop. There will be a short religious service, and there will be present a Methodist Maori party. In tins evening Mr. Mcßean will preach in th-3 Wesley Church, and the service will be broadcast.

The proposal to present the fountain to the city and for its erection in the Manners Street reserve has been approved by the Wellington City Council.