Ex-Missionaries in Methodist Posts

Methodist Posts in Australia

THIS year four out of five Methodist.

Conferences in Australia have elected ex-Overseas Missionaries to the chief posts of their States.

In New South Wales the President is the Rev. A. M. Sanders, for many years a gifted missionary to the people of Tonga.

In Queensland the Secretary of the Conference is the Rev. T. Norman Deller, who gave a long and successful ministry to Fiji. He was the organiser of the Cen tenary celebrations, and gave a good lead to the new Jubilee church scheme for Suva.

In Victoria, the Secretary and President elect is Dr. Harold Wood, who developed the great Tupou College and Queen Salote Girls’ School in Tonga. His legal know ledge proved most useful in the reunion of Methodism in Tonga.

Finally, in South Australia the Secretary and President-elect is the Rev. W. R.

Steadman, who gave very long and de voted service to the Indian Methodist Mission of Fiji, organising and building the big Toorak School; building the Hannah Dudley Memorial Church and other institutions.

Mr. P. P. Legh, who left the Solomon Islands three months ago after serving, as senior manager of Guadalcanal Estates (Lever’s) for two years, reached Sydney at the end of May after visiting Van couver, Canada. He went on to Cairns to join his wife, who stayed in North Queensland during his absence abroad.