REV. A. HARDING
The death has. occurred of the Rev. Arthur Harding, of Lower Hutt, who was well known as the official chaplain to the Wellington Hospital and as a visiting minister to the Porirua Mental Hospital. Mr. Harding was born in Ludlow, Shropshire, in 1861, and in his early years was apprenticed to his father as a blacksmith. He joined the Methodist Church when he was 20 years of age, and went to Queensland as a probationer minister. He was in Queensland for thirteen years, and returned to England in 1900. He was appointed to the Leamington and Petersfield circuit, but because of ill health he left England again in 1907 for New Zealand. He was stationed first at New Plymouth, and successively at Thames, Waipawa, Foxton, and Pahiatua. Mr. Harding retired from the ministry and came to the Hutt in 1923. He was married-in 1894, and his wife predeceased him in 1930. He leaves one daughter, Miss Winifred Harding, of Levin.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 127, 25 November 1938, Page 11
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