METHODIST CHURCH
PRESIDENT FOR NEXT YEAR REV. L. B. NEALE ELECTED [BV TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION"] CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday The election of- the .Rev. Leslie B. Neale, of Dunedin, as president of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, for 19-10, was made at the opening of the annual conference of tho Church in Christchurch this evening. Mr. Neale will take office at the next annual conference. Tho Eev. W. A. Burley, of St. Alban's, Christchurch, was reelected secretary of the conference for 1940.
After three years' training in the Trinity Methodist Theological College in Auckland, Mr. Neale began his work in the ministry of the Church at Ashhurst, Palnierston North, in 1911, and was stationed at Kdgewaro Koad, Christchurch, and Grey town before serving for thrco years in tho Great War.
Mr. Neale was subsequently stationed at Stratford and St. Albans, and has been in charge of the Central Mission in Dunedin for the last eight years and is chairman of tho Otago-South-Jand district.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23274, 17 February 1939, Page 13
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