HERRON, Rev Alan Craig           B.A., M.A., B.D., S.T.M. (Union NY)
b. Auckland 28.8.1929;
w. Shona Mary McArthur b. Christchurch 12.3.1928 m. 19.5.1955. Shona holds a
Karitane Nursing Certificate.
Alan educated at Otago Boys High School and Otago University.
Theological Hall 1952-54
Granted the Begg Travelling Scholarship and studied at New College, Edinburgh
for one year and at the Union Seminary, New York, USA.
Ordained Invercargill Outdistricts 29.8.1957 - resigned 5.10.1961
To All Saints College (Mission Course), Sydney for preparation prior to overseas
mision work 19.1.1962
Trinity College Singapore, appointed as Lecturer 1962.
London for special study 24.8.1966; back to Singapore 28.12.1967.
Trinity Coll & University of Singapore, Lecturer  12.1967; returned to NZ with wife
and family Dec 1974, as Shona's health could not survive the tropics. 
Off Mission staff 4.8.1976.
St Marks Collegiate Chch 17.2.1977
St Andrews Blenheim 20.3.1984 
Minister Emeritus  31.10.1994.
Son of Very Rev. D.C. Herron 

HERRON, Very Rev David Craig               C.B.E.,M.C.,M.A.,D.D.(St Andrews)
b 17.9.1882
w Edith S.  b 23.3.1893 m 17.6.1919 d 17.7.1979
Attended School at Pukerau; worked for three years on his Father’s farm; then
employed as a clerk in the NZ Railways Dept for 7 years.  Went to Glasgow
University and the Free Church College for Theological studies 1911.
Licensed by Glasgow Presbytery 21.4.1915
Ordained by Presbytery of Wellington as Chaplain to 1st NZEF 21.1.1916;
War service 17.1.1916 to 31.10.1919
St Davids Auckland  AP 11.12.1919
Knox Church Dunedin  DnP 12.6.1930 - retired 31.3.1950
Moderator of Assembly 1943;  Convener of the Theological Hall Committee
from 1939; member of the Otago University Council; member of Senate of the
University of NZ; Pro-Chancellor of University of NZ for 3 years; Chancellor
of Otago University for 10 years.
Father of Rev A.C. Herron.
Died 1.7.1955

HERRON, Rev Dr Douglas G.M.
From Canada
Napier West  HBP- 6 mths supply from 1.4.1988

HESLOP, Miss Letitia Jane
b 30.9.1908 at Irwell, NZ
Miss India - qualified nurse
Jagadhri Hosp, Punjab India  -  went to India 4.1.1938 for 18 mths to relieve in Hosp.

HESS, Rev Wayne                B.A.,D.Min.,D.D.
Meth Ch
Franklin West Co-op SAP  9.2.1990

HETA, Rev George
w Rangi  m 9.9.1961
Theological Hall 1973-76
Ordained Opoho Dunedin for work with Maoris (Honorary) 26.8.1979
Waimana - Honorary 11.6.1980 
Auckland Maori Pastorate - Honorary  9.2.1986  
Minister Emeritus  30.1.1994

HETHERINGTON, Rev William
b 4.5.1879 (or 4.5.1884) Scotland 
w(1) (?)  b.(?)  m.(? – prior to 1913)  d.1929
w(2) Annie Florance Margaret b 19.8.1904  m -  d 10.8.1966
Formerly a Storekeeper. Three years High School education and took part
of the Home Missionary course. Joined Home Missionary service 1927.
HM Ohai SP 1927 (11 months)
Hedgehope SP  1928 (3 years),  Ord HM  25.11.1930
Kumara WsP  1930
Pukemiro WkP  1933
Waitara TkP  1937
Ohakune & Raetihi  WgP  1941
Normanby-Okaiawa TkP  1946 - retired 1.6.1949; to Waitara 1953;
Served some time in vacant parishes.
Died 17.4.1963

HEWAT, Rev Robert A.  (Bob)
Ang Ch
Pio Pio Co-op WkP  12.1975
Bell Block Co-op, TkP   2.1980
Waikohu Co-op, Te Karaka GP  14.7.1988,  ret 31.5.1993

HEWITSON, Miss Anne
Overseas Worker
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia  1984 

HEWITSON, Very Rev. Prof. William                 B.A.
b 25.10.1860 Smythsdale Victoria Australia
w Margaret  b 14.8.1858 m 19.2.1889 d 22.9.1934
Educated at Ballarat High School then entered the Union Bank of Australia. His mind turned to
the ministry and he went to Melbourne University, then the Presb. Church of Victoria Ormond
Theological College at Melbourne.
Licenced by the Presb. Church of Victoria 1888
Ordained Brunswick as assistant to Rev A MacVean 15.5.1890 to 4.6.1895
To New Zealand 1895 -
Called to Knox Church Dunedin DnP  9.7.1895 - resigned 31.12.1908
Master of Knox College Dunedin and Professor of Practical Training, Theological Hall, Dunedin,           
appointed 1.1.1909, Inducted 13.4.1909 - retired 31.12.1928  
(Proper title of Chair was ‘Professor of English Bible and Practical Training’.
Moderator of the General Ass 1928
On Union in 1901 he was appointed Convener of the Foreign Missions Committee and for 21 years
was the Foreign Mission statesman of Presb. Church of New Zealand; Convener of the Publications
Committee; was known by students among themselves as ‘Bramah’.   He was twice nominated as
Moderator of  Assembly, but on the first occasion ill-health prevented him from accepting.  After his
retirement he remained Convener of the Publications Committee, and still took an active interest in
the life and work of the Church.
‘He brought to his duties physical vigour, fine culture, social influence, moral power, and religious
enthusiasm, together with the rich experience of a large ministry.’
(Motion of Theological Education Committee )
Mrs Hewitson was very active in the Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union.
Died 8.12.1932 Dunedin

HEWITT, Rev John Bates Holt
b. (?) Northern Ireland
To England at 10 years of age, from age 15-18 he was a student of Theology.
To New Zealand, taught in Otago Public Schools and at Queen’s Collegiate School, Auckland.
Studied under the Rev William Bannerman of Clutha.
To the United States of America and presumably ordained there -
14 years a Minister in America 1876 to c.1890
To Australia -
Received by the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales 1890 (only 1 year on roll).
d. (?)

HEWITT, Miss Patricia
b. Hastings 3.7.1927
Educated at Hastings High School. General Nursing Course at Dannevirke Hospital (1948),
Maternity Course at Whakatane Hospital (1950), Plastic Surgery Certficate at Burwood
Hospital Christchurch (1952), Post-graduate Diploma in Nursing Administration (1961),
and Midwifery course at Wellington Hospital (1965).
Not required to attend Deaconess College, however undertook some study under the
Chrsitian Education Department.
Commissioned as a Missionary at Waipukurau 10.6.1965
Missionary Nurse New Hebrides (Vanuatu), appt. to Vaemali Hospital 7.6.1965
To All Saints College Sydney for language preparation 1965; then  to -
Vaemali Hospital Vanuatu 11.1965
Returned to NZ  after 12 years service 7.7.1977, off Mission staff 31.1.1978

HEWSON, Rev Arthur Ian
b 11.5.1923 at Timaru
w Barbara  m 24.10.1953
Theological Hall 1950-2
Ord Kelso MtP 14.5.1953
Takapau-Norsewood HBP  12.9.1957
St Peters Napier 12.9.1963
Martinborough WpP 21.8.1966
St James Union Masterton WpP  26.2.1974
St Marks Palmerston  Nth 18.6.1981  ret 31.7.1988
“Ian was born in South Canterbury in 1923. He grew up on his parents' farm in the Esk Valley
area near St Andrew's just South of Timaru. Went to the small country school there. Timaru
Boys High School shaped a love of teaching and the euphonium. His parents were stalwarts
of the Presbyterian Church. His father wounded in WWI, a quiet man who Ian said taught
him compassion. His mother a true pioneer woman, a founder of the PWMU in the parish,
ran the farm during the war years. Ian set out to become a teacher, but got called up after
only one term teaching. He served overseas in Italy and was wounded in the leg at Farenza.
He saw his  special friend Don Buchanan killed. His interest in the peace movement began
about this time.
Returning to NZ after the war was an unsettled time for him as for many others. He
remembered the SCM and Moral Rearmament as movements that assisted him to readjust.
Eventually, he enrolled at Otago University and set out as a divinity student for the PCNZ.
His time in the Theological Hall both excited and drew him out. There from 1950-1952 the
church was beginning a period of expansion which became the New Life Movement. He
remembered the excitement of learning to use radio with Lloyd Geering, then minister at
Opoho Church.
Ordained in early 1953 he began ministry in the Heriot-Kelso parish in the Mataura
Presbytery. He and Barbara Squires married in October of that year, having met each other
at a Bible Class conference in Invercargill. They began a long and fruitful ministry together.
When he retired in 1988 he returned to Masterton to take up his many retirement interests.
In retirement he loved the time to read without interruption. He expressed his love of
singing by becoming a tenor in the Wairarapa Singers; they sang "Thine Be the Glory" at
his funeral. He had always maintained an interest in the RSA. And he developed his interest
in bowling. He served many years on the Board of Presbyterian Support Central, where his
advice was always wise, and his influence on other members always gracious.
He felt for the underdog and the litle people in his ministry. Experiences from being bullied
at secondary school, and the years in the army and the war encouraged the growth of his
compassion. He and Barbara experienced tragedy themselves when their 17 year old son
was killed in a motorbike accident. He loved to talk through with the people in his care the
great life experiences of birth, death and marriage. His pastoral care of people after
funerals was exemplary. He communicated a rich enjoyment of life to ordinary folk and his
family. He loved good food and conversation. He enjoyed watching rugby, hockey and
cricket. He was thoughtful man, setting up study groups and joining the Sea of Faith to
keep in touch with the latest thinking. He kept his spirit alive during his last illness,
seeing it as part of life under God.” (from Obit.)
Died 13 June 2001

HEWSON, Mrs J.              see                    Kingan, Rae

HEWSON, Sr Margaret Moira
b 6.12.1918
Deac Coll 1947-9; completed probation, Ord 1950
PSSA City Deac Wn  1.12.1949
1st woman member of WnP, commissioned elder from St James  1956;  Rep 1957: at Chch
Ass one of 1st women, to be a member of Ass.
Died 29.12.1958 in office, aged 40

HEY, Rev Roger J.E.
Meth Ch
Hosp Chap Ak (Carrington Hosp)  1980-9-

HEYWARD,  Mr S.R.
HM Katikati WkP  1924
Ross WsP 1927  res 1929 & wthd fr HM serv

HICKS, Mr George James             
b. 8.4.1916, unmarried.
Formerly a Landscape Gardener, undertok studies to BA standard at University in
Psycology, Logic & Ethics, Political Science, Economics and terms in five other
subjects. Spent two years at the Theological Hall. 
Joined the Home Missionary service 16.5.1945
HM Eketahuna WpP 1946, resigned to accept other employment.

HIDDLESTONE, Rev John                    M.B.E.,E.D.
b 19.3.1893; w Elizabeth Dorothea  b 20.10.1896 m 30.11.1923
Bapt Ch Min - recd at Ass 1.11.1946 as Min of PCNZ; Chap during WW2, became Pris of
War in Crete, released 1945.
Ind Tasman & Moutere Hills NMP  17.12.1946  res 31.3.1950 thr ill-health & wthd; 
ill-health continued.
Died  1.1.1960

HIGHET, Rev Joseph Malcolm Henry (known as Malcom)              Ll.B.
b 22.9.1917
w Margaret Leighton  b 22.2.1920 m 27.8.1943 d.(?)
First Echelon, Middle East, World War Two.
Theological Hall Dunedin 1949-51
(Student Supply Corstorphine)
Ordained Assistant Minsiter St Pauls Oamaru NOP 31.1.1952
Eveline Oamaru NOP 23.7.1953
Trinity Timaru SCP 26.5.1955
St Pauls Invercargill SP 24.8.1961
Knox Gonville Wanganui WgP 4.2.1969
Johnsonville Union WnP  31.1.1974
Maheno-Incholme NOP 2.2.1978 
Minister Emeritus  31.1.1982
Retired to Geraldine.
Died 14 March 2010 at Timaru.

HIGHT,  Deacon  Dianne  C. 
Methodist Church
Te Aroha Co-op WkP  1.2.1991

HILDER, Rev B.J.
Meth Ch
Moutere Hills NMP  2.1975 to 1985

HILDRETH, Rev Errol Alton                  L.Th.
w Barbara Joan   m 1.2.1958
From Baptist Church,  Ordained 1957;  received by the PCNZ General Assembly 1982
Heriot MtP  SS  1982
Waikouaiti DnP 3.7.1983
Kaiapoi Co-op ChP  16.11.1989
Minister Emeritus 30.11.1994

HILL, Mrs Alice  H.              Dip.Min., CPED(Basic).
CMBT 1991 
Licensed at Okauia Campsite  l.12.1992
Ordained Te Aroha Co-op WkP,  15.12.1992
St.David’s (Owhata) Rotorua  BPP Jul 1996
Minister Emeritus Jun 2001  

HILL,  Deacon  Desmond A. 
Meth Ch
Okato Co-op TkP  1.2.1991

HILL, Dr Graham Lancelot          M.B., Ch.B. (Rumah Sakit Immanuel), F.R.A.C.S.
b. Dunedin   w. Bartha Finna De Bres  m 1.2.1964
Educated at Kings High School Dunedin.
Accepted as candidate in training for Mission service Aug 1963
Graduated from Otago Medical School 1964. Demonstrator in Anatomy Dunedin Hospital 1965.
Active in Crusader work, Bible Studies and Sunday School teaching.
Sat (primary) F.R.A.C.S. 1965, Teaching Fellow in Surgery 1966, Surgical Registrar 1967-68,
Medical Missionary Indonesia,  app May 1968 as Lecturer in Surgery.
To Bandung, Indonesia 14.1.1969, thence to Hong Kong for study.
Returned to NZ to sit for his F.R.A.C.S. 17.9.1969
Left Hong Kong for Singapore 25.8.1970, arr Indonesia 9.9.1970
Lecturer in Surgery, Indonesia.
Returned to NZ for medical reasons 18.10.1971
Resigned 31.12.1971 & withdrew.  

HILL, Rev James
from United Presbyterian Church, late of Scone Scotland.
Licensed by the Edinburgh Presbytery of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland 1853
Ordained by the Perth Presbytery of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland 4 Jan 185? (1853?)
Arrived in Auckland 1863.
Inducted at St Andrews Auckland as a colleague of the Rev David Bruce  3.11.1863
St James Auckland  19.7.1864 (Their first Minister). Name of Church changed to ‘Wellington Street’
during his Ministry.
Thames WkP 28.10.1868
Lyttelton ChP  14.6.1877
Devonport Auckland NSP  22.8.1889  ret 4.1896
Moderator of  Northern Assembly 1873;  commodious Church built at Devonport during his ministry.
Died  31 Dec 1897

HILL, Rev James Kori (surname changed from Katene)
b. 3.6.1926 at Moteo, Napier.
w. Pearl August  (of Ruatahuna) b. 14.12.1926 m. 22.9.1945
Educated at Rangitahi Maori School and at te Whaiti Maori Boys’ Farm.
Employed for some years with the Ministry of Works.
Maori Theological College Whakatane 1957-59
Waimana Maori Pastorate 1960
Taupo Maori Pastorate 28.1.1961 (as Probationer)
Ord Taupo Maori Pastorate 16.6.1962
Taumarunui Maori Pastorate 5.2.1969
Tongariro Prison Farm 6.1976 -  resigned 15.9.1978 and withdrew.
Minister within the Bounds  (Te Aka Puaho) Sept 1978
Died 27 Oct 2004

HILL, Rev Robert Baillie
b 9.11.1863; w Isabella b 25.1.1862 m 22.3.1911
fr Scot; Min in Scot & then a Miss to soldiers & sailors at Gibraltar.
HM Stewart Is  SP  1912  
Tjuatapere SP  1917
Hedgehope SP  1921
South Molyneux ClP  1927, raised to full status 22.11.1928
Died 20.3.1929  Dn.

HILL, Rev Sydney Ellis
b 28.10.1875 born at sea on one of his Father’s ships;
w. Marion b 29.3.1876 m 28.10.1902 d 17.3.1947
He grew up in Glasgow; in his teens was engaged in slum work in Bridgegate Mission;
in his early 20’s he commenced as Missioner in Pollockshields where he served 7 years
under the Rev James Jeffrey.  Came to NZ in 1902 and was placed as a Home Missionary.
HM Woodville MnP 1902-4
Received by the General Assembly 1903 as 1st year student in the Theological Hall in
a 2 year course (without University pre-requisite).
Theological Hall, Dunedin 1905-7
During vacations 1905-6 he took services at Purakanui, and on alternate Sundays during
Term time.
Licensed by Dunedin Presbytery 22.11.1907
Ord Taradale & Clive HBP  15.1.1908
Lincoln ChP 21.12.1909
Tapanui MtP  13.12.1916
Ellerslie, Auckland AP  7.7.1927
Died 8.1.1935 after a long & painful illness.

HILL, Mr T.G.C.          & Mrs
Son of  Rev S.E. Hill above.
They offered to do colporteur work 1932.  They had a van & were prepared to go
anywhere.  The Ch Ex Com took them on for 6 mths & sent them to Nth Ak.  A small
amount of literature was provided for them. It was decided not to continue after the 6
mths were up. There was little demand for the literature.  It was felt that a larger van
with full range of equipment might   have been more successful.

HILLEBRAND,  Rev Herbert W.              B.A.,B.D. 
Born 24 March 1918 near Napolean, Missouri, USA.
Attended Elmshurst College in Illinois and Eden Theological Seminary.
Ordained in 1947 as a Minister of the United Church of Christ, USA (member of Reformed
World Alliance).
Specialised in Hospital Chaplaincy and supervised Clinical Pastoral Education in a number
of places, including the University of Michigan Medical Centre, Washington D.C. Hospital, and
Oral Roberts City of Faith, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Received by the General Assembly of the Presbyyterian Church of New Zealand 1963;
Chaplain Wakari Hospital Dunedin (with PSSA Dunedin) 17.10.1963 - Resigned 18.8.1967
Taught at Knox Theological Hall while at Wakari Hospital.
Died 7 Dec 2008 at Miami, Florida, aged 90 years.

HILLIER, Mr J.R.     & Mrs
Maori Miss
Tumanako Maori Boys Hostel, Domett Ave Ak,     
Master & Matron  2.1971  res 12.1971

HILLS, Rev Derrick Grant               B.Th., A.I.I.N.Z
w Jillian Margaret  m 31.1.1987
Theological Hall 1986-87
Licensed at Musselburgh Dunedin 22.11.1987
Ordained Rakaia AsP 31.1.1988
Assistant Minister Invercargill North  SP  7.10.1990
North Invercargill - in charge  SP  20.10.1991 
Moderator of Southland Presbytery 2000
St Andrew’s Te Puke  BP  Feb 2001
Resigned from Ministerial Roll 2006

HILVERDA, Sr Martha
b 25.10.1913 in Holland
Arrived New Zealand c. 1936
Deaconess College 1954-56;  
Ordained Deaconess DnP  17.10.1957
PSSA Iona Home Oamaru 17.9.1957 to 12.1960
PSSA Ross Home Dunedin 1962  - retired 1963
Died 3 Sept 1986 at Dunedin. Interred in Green Park Cemetery Dunedin

HINCHCLIFF, Rev John Clarence              M.A.(Hon), M.A., Ph.D.
w Laurie Danz  m 5.7.1964
A NZer who did his theological course in Jerusalem;
Ordained by United Pres Ch USA 1970, and served in that Church for several years. 
Applied to Ass 1973 to be recd into PCNZ as Min - granted.
Inducted as Chaplain Maclaurin Chapel Auckland University (under NCC) 29.7.1973
Resigned 31.12.1979 - to Dept of Humanities, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. 
Returned to Auckland  4.1985.
Support Services Auckland, Assoc AP.

HIND, Rev Eric Charles                   M.Sc.
b 8.12.1927; w Ngaire b 25.4.1928 m 12.5.1953
Hall 1964-6
Ord Motueka-Riwaka NMP 7.12.1966
St Margarets (Bishopdale) Chch 6.12.1973
Minister Emeritus 29.2.1988

HINES, Rev Douglas
b 8.2.1921; w Elsie Evelyn b 8.12.1928 m 14.11.1951
HM Mt Maunganui BPP 6.4.1953
Ross WsP 1955, Ord HM  19.9.1956
Hall 1959 (emergency course) - res 11.1959 on acct of accident, & resulting ill-health,
& wthd.

HIRD, Rev David                M.A.,B.D.
b 8.5.1871
w Laura b 24.3.1874 m 24.3.1903 d 14.12.1958
He came to NZ as a Minister of the Congregational Church and became Minister of
Congregational Church in Christchurch; elected Chairman of the Congregational Union
for a term.  Feeling that NZ did not need a Congregational Church in addition to its well
established Presbyterian Church, he decided to join the PCNZ, returning to the ways of
his Scottish ancestors.
Licensed by the Waikato Presbytery and Licensed by the Auckland Presbytery of the
Congregational Church 1897 [this conflicts with above which indicates that he was
already a minister of the Congregational Church when he arrived in NZ]
He applied to be received by the PCNZ General Assembly as a Minister; received 16.12.1913.
Ind Rotorua BPP 21.1.1914
Opotiki BPP 3.9.1919 - He had been leader of movement for a separate Presbytery for the
Bay of Plenty, and when it was formed he was their first Moderator.
Died 6.11.1930 while undergoing medical treatment in Auckland.

HITCH, Rev R.
fr Eng
HM Frasertown GP 1915
Gonville Wanganui 1916  res 1917

HITCHINS, Mrs W.            see               Campbell, Betty

HITCHCOCK, Rev Herbert Webster (Bert)             B.A.
b 6.11.1903 Halifax Yorkshire England;
w Elsie Margaret b 22.4.1908 m 16.4.1931  d  19.6.1993 
He came to NZ as a young man, and worked on staff of the Lands & Survey Dept Auckland.
He gained his BA from Auckland University.
Theological Hall, Dunedin 1927-28 (as a Methodist student)
Received by the PCNZ 28.11.1928
Theological Hall, Dunedin 1929 (3rd year as Presbyterian student)
Licensed by Auckland Presbytery 8.10.1929
Ord Miramar, Wellington WnP  17.10.1929 
Clevedon SAP  31.1.1933
Cambridge WkP  20.5.1937
He served full time as Chaplain in Army Camps in NZ 1942-3, and then returned to
Cambridge parish. 
Resigned 15.3.1946 - to United Kingdom.
Ratho (near Edinburgh) 1947
Returned to NZ :
Thames WkP  2.9.1948
Wairoa GP 6.9.1951
Northcote NSP 19.9.1963 - retired 6.12.1968
He composed music, notably Christmas Carols in 3 books; published vol of children’s
sermons.
Died 23.2.1990 at Auckland. 

HOBBS, Rev William Pierce
b 26.10.1901; w Gladys Ivy b 21.2.1902 m 20.1.1940  d  28.3.1993. 
He was an officer in Salv Army; joined HM staff in 1957.
HM Dargaville Outfields NP  7.1957
Training course for HMs completed 1959;  Ord HM early 1960. It was intended to bring
his name before Ass 1962 to be raised to full status.
Died 24.8.1962 Ak in office, aged 60

HODDER, Rev John Edward           M.A., B.A., B.D., Dip.Theol., Dip.Ed.
b 16.1.1932 at Levin
w (1) Terrclaire Fay  m 18.12.1954 div 
w (2) Valarie Clare  m 1.9.1973
HM Mt Maunganui BPP 2.1955
Theological Hall 1958-60
Ordained St Davids Hastings 8.12.1960 res31.8.1967
St Andrews & Knox New Plymouth  SS 1.11.1981
Hon Assist St Andrews New Plymouth, half-time 12.4.1988
(supply from 11.1987)
“Since 1967 John’s teaching career covered three quite different institutions : Lindisfarne
College, Otorohanga College, and since 1978 a tutor at Taranaki Polytechnic and Education
Officer at New Plymouth Regional Prison. He will be remembered for his support of many
individuals and families undergoing crisis or stress; for his creativity in the pulpit or
classroom, for his clear writing; his involvement in numerous community activities and for
his ecumenical interests.” (From Obit)
Died 25.9.1992, in office.

HODDER, Mr L.J.
HM Mt Maunganui BPP 1954
Waitati DnP 1958  ret 1960

HODGSON, Rev John Robert Penney                B.Soc.Sc.
w Mary Rose b 16.6.1957 m 8.1.1977
Hall 1978-80
Ord Putaruru WkP 2.9.1981 res 30.6.1983
Shannon MnP 31.5.1984  - resigned 1.6.1986 and withdrew.
Lodged Certificate May 1986

HODSON, Rev Leonard John
b 19.12.1883 Brighton, England
w.(?)  b.(?)  m.(?)  d.(?)
Employed by an Insurance Company in London; then Sports Master at a Grammar
School from c. 1900; in 1908 went to Australia. Took a course at the Theological College
Bendigo; Curate of Bendigo for the Anglican Church for 3 years. Returned to England
in 1911; attended the Bible Training Institute Glasgow, Graduating in 1913. 
Dr Gibb appealed for HM staff at that time; he responded and came to NZ in 1913.
HM Eketahuna WpP 1913,  Ord HM 1914
Helensville AP 1915
Takapau HBP  1918
Awhitu SAP 1922
Visited England 1924; returned to NZ 1924
Orepuki SP 1925
Waianiwa SP  1929
St Andrews SCP 1933
(Leave of absence Apr 1936 to 18.4.1937)
Apiti WgP 1937
Avondale AP 1941  ret 1950
In retirement - Featherston (supply) 1952
Also short terms of supply in the Auckland area.
Died 1.8.1970 

HOETE, Rev Mervyn
Putauaki Maori Pastorate, Te Aka Puaho Mar 2007

HOGG, Sr Alison I.
Ord Deac by WgP 15.12.1906 to assist Mr Fletcher at Taupo 30.1.1907
Oranui  8.1907
Tiroa, Taumarunui (her centre) 1908  res 1910 for health reasons, & spent 2 yrs teaching -
Waimiha Native School 1910-2
Taumarunui 1912
Rep 1939: She has reached the stage when Deacs retire (1939).  So she has res, but the
Com asked her to continue with her ministry to children at Taumarunui & in the Child
Welfare & Social Service work, which she does so effectively - part-time serv only
expected.
res fully 1947.

HOGG, Miss Alison
fr Whakatane - Office Assist Maori Synod 1.2.1945
PWTI  1948-50

HOGG, Rev David
From United Presbyterian Church Scotland.
Arrived Wellington 12.1852  -  Ordained 1853
Wanganui 1853 - resigned 1866 due to ill-health.
‘He came to Wellington on eve of Christmas 1852 for the sake of his health,and narrowly escaped
in Palliser Bay where the “Slains Castle” hung for hours on a dangerous reef, but was eventually
floated off on the rising tide.’He went to Wanganui in 1.1853.  His first Church was of toitoi and he
had an attendance of about 30.  His was a truly pioneer ministry.  He lived for years with his family
in a small 4 roomed cottage, unlined, on $200 a year, his wife grinding all the flour needed in a little
steel hand mill.  When not trudging along muddy and uneven cattle tracks he rode a bullock.  A new
Church was built in 1854. After 13 years of arduous labour he resigned through ill-health in 1866; he
lived in Wanganui till 12.1874 when his name disappears from records. 
Resided in a Lunatic Asylum, Adelaide Road, Wellington – had been there some years.
Died 2.6.1880

HOGG, Rev Henry
b 23.7.1881 near Wanganui; w  Eleanor Maud b 30.1.1884  m 6.4.1909  pred h
In 1906 he went to Hope Lodge, a miss training Coll near Adelaide Aust.   After serving the
Sth Aust Pres Ch in one of its most Northerly HM stations, he returned to NZ & entered HM
serv here.
Weber & Wainui HBP  1909
Utiku WgP 1910
Halcombe WgP 1911
to Bolivian Miss 1912; after 5 yrs returned to NZ.
Carterton WpP supply 1918, while its Min was at WW1.
Hall 1920-2
Ord Waitahuna  1.12.1922
Winton SP 16.12.1925
Weston NOP  3.2.1931
Opoho DnP  19.3.1936
Whakatane BPP  17.7.1940  ret 30.11.1944
Supplied at Taupo, Reporoa & Maori stations in ret;
Father of Mrs J. Ross Murray, Maori Boys Training Farm, Te Whaiti.
Died 23.7.1967 Hamilton

HOGG, Rev William H.
b. 1820 Bellasis, County Cavan, Ireland.
w.Eliza Morrow, a Daughter of Robert Morrow, Rockville, County Cavan. Married at Presbyterian
Church Ballyjamesduff to William Hogg, Clergyman of Drumkernan Manor, Killyshandra, County
Cavan, Ireland 5th August 1852
Educated at Old College, Belfast GC 1843.
Licensed by the Presbytery of Baillieborough (Presbyterian Church of Ireland) 23.12.1845
Ordained Brandon 30.6.1848
Agent Belfast Town Mission 1848 to 1851
Inducted to Drumkeeran 29.5.1855 to April 1855
Inducted to Ballyjamesduff 30.5.1855 to 21.7.1863
To New Zealand –
Arrived Christchurch 8.12.1863 and received into (Northern) Presb. Church of New Zealand
Amuri ChP  1.1864 - pioneer Minister of district - resigned 1.1872
Ross WsP  2.1872  - resigned 1874, but his resignation lay on the table for 2 years while he
concentrated on the district round Stafford (Westland). He left finally for Sydney on 8.10.1876. 
To Australia –
Received by the Presb. Church of New South Wales – without charge
Received by the Presb. Church of Victoria 20.3.1877
Inducted to Warracknabeal 9.6.1880 to 5.5.1886 (regarded as elderly and not very active)
Returned to New Zealand -
He brought a petition from the Presb. Church of Victoria requesting that he be received as a
Minister, and presented it to the 1887 Assembly.  It was accepted by the Assembly and he was
received back again. 
He returned to NZ when an old man and was noted as living at Goldsborough in 1899.    
Died 8.8.1900

HOH, Miss Yiu Lam ("Little Miss Hoh")
A Teacher at the NZ Presbyterian Church Canton Villages Mission Tak Kei Girls’ Boarding School
at Kong Chuen from c.1930’s to closure of the Mission in 1951. After retirement she lived in Hong Kong
and continued to receive an annual annuity from the NZ Church for her valued services.
Sister of “Big Miss Hoh”
Died Hong Kong Dec 1969.

HOH, Miss Yee Lam ("Big Miss Hoh")
A Teacher at the NZ Presbyterian Church Canton Villages Mission Tak Kei Girls’ Boarding School
at Kong Chuen from c.1930’s to closure of the Mission in 1951. After retirement she lived in Hong Kong
and continued to receive an annual annuity from the NZ Church for her valued services.
Sister of “Little Miss Hoh”
Died Hong Kong c.1979-80

HOLDAWAY, Rev Graeme
b 13.5.1928;
w (1) Elizabeth Heather  m10.10.1953
w (2) Robin Fiona  m 18.8.1984
HM Awhitu SAP 1957
Theological Hall 1961-63
Ordained Ngakuru-Reporoa BPP 27.11.1963
Kihikihi WkP 20.2.1969
Chaplain Tokanui Hospital WkP  18.9.1975
Minister Emeritus  31.1.1989

HOLDING,  Rev  Geoffrey (Geoff) D.         BTh., Dip.Min.
Theological Hall  1990-92
Ordained East Gore MtP  31.10.1993
Wallacetown  SP Jan 1999
Minister within the Bounds SP  31 May 2005    

HOLLAND, Rev Richard (Dick) Dawson            B.A. B.Th.        
w Vickie Susan  m 3.5.1974
Theological Hall 1983-5
Ordained Te Puke BPP 13.2.1986
St Stephens Ponsonby  AP  18.3.1993
St Paul’s Waiheke Island  AP  Feb 2001
Minister Emeritus Feb 2001

HOLLIER, Rev David E.
Ch of Christ
Tawa Union Assoc WnP  1973
Tawa Union WnP Feb 1994

HOLLIES,  Una Kathleen  (Sr Kathleen)                 Mrs G. Bevan
b 12.4.1908
h. George Bevan  b. (?)  m.20.10.1951
Maori Miss
Te Teko Assist  1.4.1941
Ord Deac Te Teko 26.9.1945
Opotiki 1946 - language stud
Maungapohatu  1.2.1947
Waiohau  1.11.1948  res 30.9.1951
“She served at a time when conditions were extremely primitive and the mission
stations isolated from the outside world, often being without telephone or radio
and the only transport was by horse or bicycle. Sister Kathleen was hard working,
always cheerful and was much respected and loved by all she came into contact with.
She was totally committed to the work of the Maori Mission.” (from Obit.)
Died 18.4.1997

HOLLISTER-JONES, Sr. Anne Jane                        (Mrs AJ Anderson)        
b 13.2.1923 at Ruthven, Wales, UK
h Robert Stewart Anderson b 29.12.1915  m 20.5.1967 (Divorced)
Deaconess College 1959-60 (emergency course)
Ordained Deaconess PSSA Hostel, Arasaig Wellington 4.5.1962 - resigned 31.1.1963
Knox Church Lower Hutt WnP  30.1.1964  - resigned 20.5.1967 to marry Rev R.S. Anderson.
“St Peters was [from 1939] greatly blessed by Anne’s tireless contribution. Anne was a
Sunday School teacher, a Bible Class leader, secretary of the Bay of Plenty Easter Camp
Committee, a  music teacher and involved in the church choir and other music
activities. After graduation as a Deaconess, she worked in a parish associated with the
Strongman Coal Mine at Greymouth before being appointed Matron of a Presbyterian
Social Services Hostel for Young Women in Wellington. Anne then became Deaconess
and Parish Assistant at Knox Church in Lower Hutt. This included Scripture teaching at
St Oran’s College, Lower Hutt.
“My interest was in people and places. I set out to train myself to accept, understand and
love people from all walks of life…”
In 1972 one of the highlights for Anne was visiting India where Catherine [her Sister] had
been since 1953. Anne had been Catherine’s great supporter back home doing all she could
to foster interest in what Catherine was doing.
In the early 1990’s, Anne came back to Tauranga where she once again enjoyed the rich
fellowship of her sisters. Anne once again involved herself in the life of St Peter’s and the
Bethlehem Community Church where she was much loved. She was a much appreciated
parish visitor and latterly president of the Association of Presbyterian Women at St Peter’s.”
(From Memorial Minute - edited)
“Don’t ever stop believing that your life doesn’t make a difference”.
Died 24 March 2006
Sister of Rev CA Hollister-Jones

HOLLISTER-JONES, Rev Catherine Adelaide                   QSM
b 9.8.1919 North Wales
Educated in at Tokaora, Turuturu, both near Hawera.
Deaconess College 1948-50
Deaconess Tamaki Ak 12.1950 (under Home Ministry Committee)
Ordained Deaconess 30.5.1951
Missionary India  -  Dedicated at St Peter’s Church Tauranga 18.2.1953
Sailed for India 4.3.1953
“Own Missionary” of St Peter’s Church, Tauranga.
Appt. Headmistress & Chaplain of Henderson Memorial Girls’ School at Kharar 1953
(to replace Miss V Sutherland)
Left NZ 4.3.1953
Later set up the Jubilee School in Kharar to provide a solid Christian based education
from junior right up to senior level. 
Retired early 1988 after 35 years in India;
Ordained a Minister of the Presb. Church of NZ  11.3.1976
Minister Emeritus Jun 1986
Sister of Sr AJ Hollister-Jones

HOLLOWAY, Rev William H.
He came to NZ from NSW in 1902 - joined HM staff in Auckland district.
HM Hikurangi NP 1909
Hokianga-Okaihau NP 1914,  Ord HM 1914
Marua, Whakapara 1915
lic authorized 26.11.1919; his ordination to full status was given in recognition of his
faithful work as HM and his success in raising a large sum for the HM Fund.
Ord Minister at Whakapara NP 7.1.1920
Kaurihohore NP 11.10.1922
Taneatua BPP 7.4.1926
‘He did yeoman service in helping to collect a large sum for Home Mission Service in 1920.’
Died 29.11.1929 Taneatua, in office

HOLMES, Mr G.
HM Waimate Outfields SCP 1914

HOLMES, Rev James
He was trained at Hackney Coll London; he served in the Cong Ch Min in Eng for several
yrs.  Came to NZ & spent some yrs in business in Hawkes Bay, & was preaching contin-
ually for our Chs in that area.  Finally he was recd as Min by Ass 27.11.1923.
Upper Hutt WnP supply 1922; app23.4.1923;  Ind 29.4.1924; 
It was a Ch Ex charge & it was raised to a fully sanctioned charge during his ministry.  He
did wonderful work among the inmates of Wi Tako Prison, & won unstinted praise of state officials.
Died  20.10.1927 

HOLMES, Miss Lesley
National Youth Co-ordinator with PD&M Wn,  res 30.6.1988 ill-health.

HONATAPU, Miss Ada
Maori Miss - Turakina Maori Girls Coll; she was Dux of the Coll in 1920.
Turakina M G Coll - app to staff 1921, until she died.
Died   9.1921

HONDERS, Rev Bernard Anthonie            B.A.
b 4.4.1925; w Jennifer Margaret  m 15.1.1955
Hall 1954-6
Ord Bulls WgP 28.1.1958
Sumner ChP  28.8.1963  res 5.2.1968;  res fr min 14.7.1970

HONORÉ, Rev Abraham
b 1818 Fredericia, Jutland, Denmark
He was of French-Huegenot extraction. At age 22 he offered his services to North German Mision
Society and was accepted.  He had been brought up on a farm with the result that his education
was inadequate; he was therefore sent to a seminary in Hamburg for 2 years. In 1843 the attention
and interest of the Society was drawn to the Maori race, when a German whaler returned to Bremen
with a Maori youth as a member of the crew.  Following study and consideration the Society sent the
Rev Wohlers out to establish a Mission in the South Island of New Zealand. After the Rev Wohlers
had been at Ruapuke for 4 years, the Bremen Society sent out Mr Honoré to assist him. 
He sailed in the ‘Blundell’ in 1848.  For some 20 years they worked together, on farms by day, and on
Sundays preached to the Maoris.
Ruapuke 1848
Stewart Is 1855
Jacobs River 1859
At the request of the Bremen Society Mr Honoré was ordained by Southland Presbytery on 24.3.1869.
Honore felt that the population of Maoris in the South Island was declining steadily, and too few
remained there to warrant the activity of the Mission there.  He went to the North Island to the
Rangitikei area where there was a larger Maori population, and also he was nearer his own sons.
Rangitikei 1871
He worked here without financial support from the NZ Presb. Church; he was supported by the
assistance of his friends and a grant of $100 annually from the Bremen Society.  It was reported to
the General Assembly in 1874 that a number of congregations had held a collection to assist him and
his work. It was urged that as a man ordained by the NZ Presb. Church he should also be supported
by them.  At that time the Assembly was not prepared to go further than to invite all congregations
to hold a collection towards his support.  Finally in 1881 his name was entered on the roll of our
Church as one of our Missionaries, for whom the Church took financial responsibility.
Being a Dane he sometimes conducted services in Danish for Danish settlers in NZ.  He worked in
the Rangitikei, Turakina, and Wangaehu districts, and later also in Manawatu and Horowhenua districts.
Died  July 1894

HOOD, Rev Robert
He was a Probationer of the Church of Scotland, Presbytery of Dunbar, Scotland;
Hhe joined those who ‘came out’ in the Disruption of 1843; 
Arrived in Dunedin in 1852; was associated with Presbytery of Otago at its 1st meeting on 17.6.1854;
Member of 1st Session of Knox Church Dunedin; later he helped to found Kaikorai Church. 
He died without ever having been inducted to a parish,
‘A sympathetic, guileless man of holy life who did a great deal in the days of the early settlement to
establish religious ordinances throughout Otago.’
Died March 1871

HOOKER, Rev Keith James                M.A., B.D., A.C.A.
Theological Hall Dunedin 1981
Ord St Peters Tauranga BPP 15.12.1981
Lodged Certificate, BOP 15 July 2007