METHODIST CONFERENCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14214, 2 June 1910, Page 5

METHODIST CONFERENCE.

THE SEPARATION QUESTION.

iPress Aseociation-Bv Telegraph-Copyright ADELAIDE, June 1.

The Rev. C. H. Laws, president of the New Zealand Conference, stated that since boyhood he had been in ardent separationist. New Zealanders did not take up the separation attitude in any light-headed fashion.- It was the settled judgment of the Wesleyans in New Zealand.

Tho Rev. C H. Garland (New Zealand) said he thought organic union with Australia the best for New Zealand, but finally he had decided to sink his personal views in deference to the unanimous wish of the Church.

Dr Morley, formerly of New Zealand, said he thought the case for the Dominion lacked vital argument. The Rev. W. J. Williams (New Zealand) remarked that Dr Morley for twenty years when in New Zealand advocated separation. It was a painful experience to find one who had instructed and inspired New Zealanders on the question, now opposed to them.

The Rev. C. H. Laws, in an interview after the vote was taken said the Dominion delegates were highly satisfied with the result and at the impartial hearing given to the speakers. The result would give the liveliest satisfaction to New Zealand Methodists. MISSIONARY WORK.

The conference decided to forward the movement in missionary policy, necessitating an increase in income of £10,500 annually, bringing the total income to £40,000. necessary to moot the existent expenditure of £30.000. and defray the deficit of £7WO. of which £4OOO was caused by the Fiji" hurricane and the balance for progressive work in Papua, New Britain, the Solomons and India.