The Rev. David Hird, M.A. (Edin.), B.A. (Oxon.), Pastor of the Trinity Congregational Church, was born at Arbroath, Scotland, in 1871. He received his early education at the Arbroath High School, and afterwards completed his studies at Edinburgh and Oxford, where he obtained his degrees. On leaving college in 1896, he went to Glasgow in order to assist Dr John Hunter at the Glasgow Trinity Congregational Church. In the following year Mr. Hird was ordained to the ministry, and was appointed to the charge of the Congregational Church in Londonderry, Ireland, where he remained until he accepted a call to the Trinity Congregational Church, Christchurch.