Methodist Missionary

Movement.

Transfers Follow Conference.

AT the annual conference of the Me thodist Missionary Society, the Rev.

J. W. Burton, general secretary, moved the recommendations of the Mis sion Board regarding transfers. The conference was held in Sydney late last month.

The conference agreed to the following appointments:— Revs. G. S. Shinkfield, of Samoa, T. C. Carne, of India, and A.

W. Pedrick, New Britain, be transferred to the Victorian and Tasmanian confer ence for appointment. The Rev. R. A.

Gibbons, of Fiji, was transferred to New South Wales for appointment. The Rev W. Whitbread was designated for ap pointment to Fiji, and the conference decided that he be ordained. The Rev.

D. Oakes was designated for New Britain, and is to be ordained. The Rev.

N. G. Parley was appointed to the Samoa district.

The conference requested the Victoria and Tasmania conference to recommend that the Rev. O. McCutcheon be or dained and appointed to Fiji, and the Rev. G. S. Crouch be ordained and ap pointed to Fiji.

The South Australian conference was requested to transfer the Rev. A. H.

Blacket for appointment to Indian work in Fiji, and the Rev. J. R. Andrew for appointment to Papua.

The conference dealt with business affecting native ministers in the mission field, and with probationers’ examina tions. On the motion of the Rev. W.

Poole, the conference carried a vote of sympathy with the relatives of the late Rev. Stanley Jarvis, whose accidental death was reported recently.

Rev. A. H. Scriven, who was for six teen years on the staff of the Methodist Mission to Papua, has been appointed General Secretary in succession to Rev.

W. A. Sinclair, who has retired.