METHODIST CONFERENCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1908, Page 2

METHODIST CONFERENCE.

£B1 TELEGRAPH. — rKESS 45SOCIATION.1 AUCKLAND, This Day. The Mothodist Conference opened last night by a meeting at which addresses were delivered showing tho progress of the joung people's movement The business meetings of the conference commence to-morrow. . Tho Feilding Star says .-—"Just now a great deal of interest is being evinced in the annual conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zoaland, which takes place in Auckland during this -week tyiu next. Delegates are going north daily, yesterday's and today's express trains containing a number of clerics and laymen. Keen interest as usual is being felt in the presidential election, which is tho first business for next Friday evening, and our readers will be particularly pleased to learn that the most popular candidate hails from Feilding— tho Rev. C. E. Beecroft. This gentleman's great servico to the Church as an organiser of Home Missions ; and as the builder of country churches, as well as his faithful and unostentatious work for many years in the cause of Methodism has endeared him to Methodists, and his nomination will receive much enthusiastic support." Mr. Beecroft is well known in Wellington.