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REV. LESLIE B. NEALE
(By Telegraph — Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, February 17
The Rev. Leslie B. Neale, 8.A., F.R.G.S., Dunedin, was elected president of the Methodist Church of NewZealand for 1940 at the opening of the annual conference of the Church in Christchurch this evening. Mr. Neale will take office at the next annual conference. The Rev. W. A. Bur ley, St. Albans, was re-elected secretary of conference for 1940.
After three years' training, in Trinity Methodist Theological College in Auckland, Mr. Neale began his work in the ministry of the Churc in Ashhurst in 1911 and was stationed at Edgeware Road, Christchurch, and Greytown before giving three years' service in the Great War. Mr. Neale continued his ministry in Stratford for some years on his return to New Zealand, and was then stationed in St. Albans, Christchurch, for seven years. He has been in charge of the central mission in Dunedin for the last eight years and is chairman of the OtagoSouthland district, an office he has held for a year.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 16
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