Wesleyan Conference

New President For Tongan Wesleyan Conference

THE Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga has elected as its new President the Rev. A. E. McKay, BA, BD. Mr.

McKay succeeds the Rev. Rodger Page who. for 38 years, guided the Church in Tonga through some of the most troubled and critical days of its history.

In that long period of outstanding leader ship he was the guide, philosopher, and friend of Tongan and European alike.

The Tongan Conference is entirely in dependent, and its members, the sixtv two ordained Tongan ministers and the several laymen appointed by the circuits, make their own decisions with regard to Church policy and choose their own officers.

The new President was accepted as a candidate for the Ministry in 1934, and, at the conclusion of his University course at Queen’s College. Melbourne, he gradu ated in Arts and Divinity. After serving his probationary years, in 1940 he went to Vavau, where for six years he has worked with devotion and ability in a difficult and isolated centre.

Mrs. McKay did a special course of nursing at the Epworth Hospital. Mel bourne, and this has proved invaluable in Vavau where there is no European medical staff. —From the Methodist “Mis sionary Review.”

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kronfeld, old South Seas identities, are at present on a visit to Western Samoa.

Mr. H. G. Boys-Smith, DSO, DSC. who was transferred from Palestine to Fiji re cently, has taken up duty as Marine Sup erintendent under the Western Pacific High Commission, with headquarters in Suva.

Mr. F. H. Moy, lately patrol officer at Manus, New Guinea, has been appointed Director of Native Affairs in Australia, in place of Mr. E. P. Chinnery, who is retiring. Mr. Moy, who is 33, was a major in the war. He has done a course in anthropology, and has had considerable experience with natives in New Guinea.

His headquarters will be at Alice Springs.

The position carries a salary of £B6O a year.