The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
The Rev. Percy James Cossum
The Rev. Percy James Cossum , Minister of the Primitive Methodist Church at the Bluff, was born in Kent, England, in 1869. After qualifying for the ministiy, he was accepted and sent to New Zealand by the English Conference in 1897. Mr Cossum was ordained in 1901, and was for two years at Eltham, and for a like period at Dunedin, and at Waddington, before taking up his duties at the Bluff in March, 1903. Mr Cossum was married, in 1901, to a daughter of Mr James Brooker, of Bromley. Kent, England.