The Rev. Charles H. Laws, B.A., Pastor of the East Belt Wesleyan Church, was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, and came to New Zealand as a child. While residing at Napier he decided to enter the ministry. After his college term he was sent as supply to Dunedin, for Mr. Morley, and subsequently served in the same capacity for a year in the Christchurch circuit. Mr. Laws has been able during the course of his ministry to take his University degree, and he is a man from whom his church expects good service in the future.