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REV. MALCOLM McQUEEN, M.A.
AN OUTSTANDING PERSONALITY.

For eight years Rev. Malcolm McQueen, who has succeeded Rev, J.C. Jones, B.A., at Chalmers Church, Launceston, was the minister of the important country charge of Noorat (Victoria), and he is now the senior minister of the Presbytery, for during those years he saw a vacancy in every charge, and in some charges two, and even more.In many ways Noorat Is an ideal country charge, and to those who came to know and appreciate the charm and personality of its pastor, Mr. McQueen came near to being the ideal minister. He possesses a strong combination of great qualities. A commanding figure, with the frame and figure of the athlete, he is also a scholar, and a brilliant member of a talented family, with wide experience of the church and of life. He was at one time assistant to Dr. Kelman, and chaplain in the A.I.F. With tact and command of language and ideas he is able to say the right thing at the right time and in the right way. Noorat is not an old charge, but it has had good men in its pulpit, in Rev. A. I. Davidson and Rev. R. F. Rolland, and that tradition is still maintained. One needs but to talk to the workers in its congregations and to the young men who have rallied to the cause of Presbyterianism in the district churches to understand the respect and love that had been won by their late minister. The Presbytery of Mortlake has recorded in its minutes its appreciation of the services of Mr. McQueen
as clerk, the expression of the feelings of every man who had seen his work. Mr. McQueen has acted as clerk of the Presbytery for a period of six years.

Examiner Launceston Thursday 14 January 1932 page 6