Sometime before 1880, Frederick left for South Australia, where he was associated with the Norwood Baptist Church[1] and there patented his "top fire" stove design in 1891 and founded his own business which eventually became Metters Limited.
[4] In February 1892 he relinquished the pastorate of Laura and Appila for Jamestown, Georgetown and Cloverhill, which he resigned in November that year, and took over the Hill Street Baptist Church at Kapunda.
A. Medley, and shortly after was elected Secretary of the Baptist Union of Western Australia,[7] while retaining the vice-presidency, followed by the presidency in November.
[9] Back in Adelaide, Metters represented the British and Foreign Bible Society and undertook various preaching roles for the Baptist Church.
[10] He left for Sydney in March 1907, where he had been appointed to the Granville and Liverpool churches, experimentally made into one circuit,[11] but relinquished the pastorate a year later.
For many years he conducted (as "Cousin Felix") the children's page in The Southern Baptist (later renamed The Australian Baptist)[2] In 1906 while in Tasmania he was appointed Chaplain (4th Class) with the Chaplains' Department of the Australian Military Forces,[13] an appointment that followed him in his subsequent moves.
Alfred Metters (c. 1863 – 1 March 1918) married Ottilie Caroline Strempel ( – 18 September 1953) at Mannum, South Australia on 29 August 1888.