METHODIST SYNOD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 November 1927, Page 9

METHODIST SYNOD.

CONCLUDING SESSION. The concluding session of the Tara-naki-AVanganui Methodist Synod opened this morning, when the business consisted largely iin the receiving and adoption of reports. In presenting the report of the Maori work, the Rev. R. P. Raken.a, gave an interesting account of the Maori mission in the Taranaki-Wangaimi district. It was removed to request the Home Mission Department to aunoint another deaconess to the Taranaki-AA 1 anga.nu'i District to assist Sister Alice Howell. FOREIGN MISSIONS. The Synod carried the following motion:— “In view of the rapidly growing needs of our So’omon Island® Mission.. :\id the need for extensive find intensive work in that field, we recommend rhe Foreign Mission Board to request. Conference (1) to allow a. special missionary effort to be made throughout the connexion in 1929 with a view to permanently raising the missionary spirit o ft lie church.; (2) that the Rev. F. Goldie be released from the Solomons for greater part of that •car in order to assist in this aimed that ministers and laymen of proved missionary enthusiasm be asked to assist.” The Svnod recommended that the ”ev. P. R. Paris be re-appointed editor of the “Methodist Times.” The Rev. E- T. Cox, M.A., on behalf cf the Synod, congratulated the Rev. \Y. T. Ox brow, chairman of the district. on the able and pleasing manner in which lie had conducted the Synod, and expressed regret that he would ba 'leaving the district next year. The Rev. AY. AY. Avery moved that, a letter of thanks he sent to Miss Gardiner, of Eltham, for the ab’e a-s----s’stance rendered to the Synod spcaota.rv. The Synod expressed its high appreciation of the manner In which the Press had opened its column® to Synod news.

After the reading of the journal, the Synod closed at 12.30 p.m.