MEMORIAL TABLET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20312, 20 July 1929, Page 12

MEMORIAL TABLET.

LATE REV. W. S. POTTER. METHODIST CHURCH SERVICE. A special service will be held ill the Richmond Avenue Methodist Church, Grey Lynn, to-morrow afternoon, when a tablet will be unveiled to the memory of the lato Rev. W. S. Potter, who for a number of years was minister of the church. Mr. Potter's death occurred on January 30 last when he was in his 75th year. His association with the Methodist Church of New Zealand dated from 1859. While following his trade as a coachbuilder he took private tuition in preparation for the ministry and was received by the Primitive Methodist Conference in 1876, his first appointment being to Greendale, Canterbury. Two years later he was appointed to Webb "Street, Wellington, to which charge he was subsequently twice recalled, spending 11 years there in all. Over *3O years of Mr. Potter's ministerial liin were spent in the Auckland Province, his other charges being in Otago, Canterbury and Taranaki. On two occasions, in 1891 and 1901, he was elected president of the Primitive Methodist Church and in all its official work he took a prominent part. After 43 years of active ministerial life Mr. Potter retired in 1919, but for sev-' eral years subsequently he acted as a supernumerary. He rendered acceptable service in the Auckland West circuit, chiefly at the Richmond Avenue Church.