BAPTIST UNION
ANNUAL ASEMBLY By Telegraph—Press .xosociatlon DUNEDIN, October 17. The annual assembly of the New Zealand Baptist Union and Missionary Society commenced to-day and will oe continued until Wednesday next. An official welcome was given to the delegates at a tea held in the Crawford Lounge, and later the new president, the Rev. R. L. Fursdon, was inducted by the retiring president, the Rev. C. W. Duncumb, at a special ser vice in the Hanover Street Baptist Church. Holy Communion followed the service. Tire chairman of the Dunedin Assembly Committee (the Rev. J. Ewen Simpson/ presided at the tea, when there was an attendance of about 100 delegates. An official welcome to the city was given by the Mayor (Mr A. H. Allen).
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21788, 18 October 1940, Page 5
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