BAY OF ISLANDS VISIT.
EXCURSION TRAINS. (BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WHANGAEEI. Thursday. Following upon an arrangement being made for an excursion train to leave Whangarei at 5.25 \ a.m. on Sunday to enable local people to see H.M.S. Hood in the Bay of Islands, -Mr. A. J. Murdoch, M.P., has interested ihimself in arranging for trains from Onerahi and Portland to be ran- in Ifime to connect with the excursion train. The district manager, Mr. A. Stubbs, has advised that the special trains asked for could be run, but he requested an assurance that) there would be WE least 50 passengers by each.
THOUGHTFUL METHODISTS.
Keen delight with the way in which the Methodist Church of New • Zealand had catered for the men of fihe Fleet was expressed by the Rev. H. V. Thompson, M.A., chaplain to H.M.A.S. Adelaide, speaking at - the lea provided by Mr. and ■Mrs. A. C. Caughey for the "Methodist men of the Fleet last Wednesday. Ha stated that no other Church had thought of its men in quite the same way, and he was sure the men would carry back to their homeland a deep sense of the aliveness of Methodism in New Zealand.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18710, 16 May 1924, Page 10
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198BAY OF ISLANDS VISIT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18710, 16 May 1924, Page 10
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