PATIENTS AND PRISONERS’ AID

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22114, 18 November 1933, Page 21

PATIENTS AND PRISONERS’ AID

. NEW AGENT APPOINTED The position of agent and chaplain for the Patients and Prisoners’ Aid Society, rendered vacant by the resignation recently of Mr F. G. Gumming, will be filled by Mr Alexander Stevens, whose appointment has just been announced. Mr Stevens’s first employment was in the capacity of messenger boy for the literary department of the Evening Star. He was later appointed to the commercial staff of that newspaper and eventually became cashier and advertising clerk. In 1905 he took up work of a religious nature on behalf of’the North-

East Valley Presbyterian Church and was for some ydprs Bible class leader. Eight years later he was appointed,, a home missionary, labouring in that capacity at Awhitu, Takapau and Morrhisville. The work of travelling secretary for the Presbyterian Church was under taken by Mr Stevens in 1918, and in this capacity he assisted in organising the young men’s Easter camp at Palmerston North in 1919 and the summer conference at Timaru in the following year. Mr Stevens then secured a position with a well-known local firm and for the past year he has been carrying on business on his own account. In 1912 he represented the Dunedin Young Men’s Christian Association at the Manchester Conference and the Keswick Convention. Ho has been session clerk of the North-East Valley Presbyterian Church for 12 years and during that period his services as a lay preacher have frequently been in demand.