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Retirement of the Rev. Matthew Maddern, New South Wales
The Sydney Morning Herald (New South Wales) Monday 19 March
1906
PERSONAL
The Rev. Matthew Maddern, who for the past 39 years has been a member of the
Methodist ministry of New South Wales, and who is at present located at
Rockdale, will at the end of the present month retire from active work. The Rev.
Mr. Maddern is a native of Zennor, Cornwall (England), having been born there in
1844. He, together with his parents, came to Australia in 1854 in the Black Ball
liner Marco Polo. He received his education at St. Paul’s school, Geelong
(Victoria), this school being attached to St. Paul’s church, then in charge of
Archdeacon Stretch, father of Bishop Stretch, the present Bishop of Newcastle.
He began his ministry in the Oberon (New South Wales) circuit, and has
successively filled the following stations:—Mudgee, Berrima, Bega, Murrundi,
Bympie (Q.), Maryborough (Q.), Rockhampton (Q.), Wallsend, East Maitland,
Orange, Wagga, Sydney, Bowral, and Rockdale. Whilst in charge of the Wagga and
Bowral circuits he filled the office of chairman of the Riverina and Goulburn
distsricts. Although Mr. Maddern is retiring from active work as a minister, the
Church will not lose his services altogether, for he has consented to act as a
supernumerary. He, with Mrs. Maddern, proposes to spend the next few months
among the South Sea Islands, and with this object in view will leave by the
Manapouri on April 3 for the Tongan Islands, for the purpose of paying a visit
to his daughter, the wife of the Rev. C. P. W. Brown, who recently succeeded the
Rev. Dr. Moulton in the charge of the Tongan Mission. Mr. Maddern will also
visit the Samoan and Fijian islands, and during his sojourn among them will make
the conditions of life among the natives a subject for special study. His
successor in the Rockdale circuit is the Rev. W. H. Beale, who will take up his
new charge on the third Sunday in April
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