METHODIST CONFERENCE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 48, 26 February 1917, Page 7

METHODIST CONFERENCE.

SITTING AT WELLINGTON.

[Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Feb. 24. At tli- \lethodist Conference to-day tlie resignations were received of the Key. A. B. CliappeH, Registrar of Auckland' University, and the Rev. Kichiml Wilton, minister without a pastoral charge The Rev. 11. Rysin,' acting-home iiiissionjiry ot the Tatiranga British Primitive Metliodist Church, was ad- , iiiittcd a member. Tluv conference decided to send an invitation to f-he Kov. H. Andrews, New South Wales, to come to Now Zealand t> replace tho Rev. C. Sinuus. The llev". W.. Beckett was granted a transfer to tho Victorian Conference on account ot" ill-health of a relative. Owin;;; to the conditions of the war it. was decided to close tho Theological Training College at Auckland tor tho j.roseiit year, the Principal, the Rev. C. \l. (Jirlind, to be appointed t;> the Auckland circuit. Students unfit tor military service will be employed in ordinary church work. , The following were admitted as full .ministers:—Messrs Robert B. Gos-u-ell, Percy Battey, and Harold T. Peat. The Revs. C. A. Foster and S. J. Wcirn passed iheir third year's probation; the Revs. A. J. L. ]\finitie, :ind W. G. SJade the .second year, and tho Revs. George E. Browne, Charles H. Kendon, Ernest E. Sage, and W. Fcrdyce the first year, the latter to complete.