The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]
The Rev. Harold E. Bellhouse
The Rev. Harold E. Bellhouse, Minister of the Belfast Methodist Church, was born in Yorkshire, England. He came to New Zealand with his parents in 1881, and was educated in the province of Auckland up to the time of being accepted for the ministry in 1890. Mr. Bellhouse was appointed to his first circuit in Taranaki in 1893, and since then he has been stationed in various parts of the colony, including Dunedin, Woolston, Wellington and Milton. He took up his work at Belfast, in 1902, as second minister in the Kaiapoi circuit, which includes Belfast and Marshlands.