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The Rev. Hemi Potatau, of Opotiki, has been appointed moderator-designate of the Maori synod of the Presbyterian Church, and will take up his new position at the beginning of next year.

The present moderator, the Rev. J. Irwin, will become principal of the Maori Theological College, Whakatane, at that date.

Mr Potatau was born at Nuhaka, Hawke's Bay, and received his education there and later at St Stephen's College, Auckland, and Scots College, Wellington.