A NOTABLE VISITOR.

Wairarapa Age, 24 December 1932, Page 5

A NOTABLE VISITOR.

REV. J. W. BURTON IN MASTERTON. A distinguished visitor to Masterton for the Christmas season is the Rev. J. W. Burton, M.A., of Sydney, New South Wales, who is staying with his sisters in Chapel Street. The Rev. J. W. Burton was a resident of Masterton in his youth and attended the Central School. From the Kuripuni and Masterton Methodist churches he entered the ministry and after a brief term of service he went to Fiji to take charge of the mission to the Hindu people on. the plantations. After nine years he returned to New Zealand, and became the minister of the Whitely Memorial Church in New Plymouth. His platform ability and executive powers in missionary enterprise led to his being called to Victoria to occupy the position of Foreign Mission Secretary in that State. Further promotion came to him when he became general secretary for Missions for the Australasian Board with his residence in Sydney, New South Wales. He was recently chosen as president of the New South Welsh Methodist Conference. He has wielded a facile pen in many a newsaper and religious journal, and several missionary books stand to his credit, of which the best known are **The Fiji of Today," and "The* Call of the Pacific." He has exercised great influence in student circles and university life, and is one of the speakers most frequently heard from Sydney over the air. His popular gifts have singled him out for special appreciation, and he is known throughout Australasia for his wireless answers to questions on religious topics. Ho will be occupying the pulpit onlv once during his brief visit to New Zealand, conducting the Masterton Methodist Church service to-morrow night. Ho will be returning to Sydney during the coming week.