[1] Goldie dominated the mission and gained the loyalty of Solomon Islander members of his church.
[3] Goldie was chairman of the Solomon Island District of the Australasian Methodist Missionary Society from 1902.
[1] He travelled through Western Solomon Islands in the two-masted mission schooner the Tandanya.
His abrasive personality brought him into conflict with J. R. Metcalfe, another strong-willed missionary,[1][3] who succeeded Goldie as chairman of the Methodist Mission in the Solomons in 1951.
[3] The witticism describing Goldie's 50 years in the Protectorate, was that in Western Solomon Islands, there were three Gs.