Group Title :Minutes & Agendas

Series Title : Minute Books

Date(s) : 6 Nov 1901 to 9 Dec 1913

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Item Description :

This book contains typed & handwritten minutes of Missions Committee meetings with a handwritten alphabetical index at front. (Minutes missing for 10 Oct 1905, 14 Oct 1909 & 8 Feb 1910). Report on Auckland Chinese by Mr WYK Chan in Cantonese script dated Apr/May 1912 at page 361.

NB : The minutes from 6 Nov 1901 to 9 Nov 1904 are duplicated in the Presbyterian Church of NZ (Northern) Foreign Mission Committee Minute Book 1888-1901.

Major Topics Include :

Reports and minutes from overseas missions; correspondence re missionaries working in South China under jurisdiction of Church of Scotland Mission at Madras; property matters; furloughs; deaths, missionary applicants, appointments, resignations and movements; liason with Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union (PWMU); translation of religious works into native language; convenor's tour, missionary and theological student mission deputation reports (Student Christian Union) within New Zealand; offer of missionary training home in Dunedin (Feb. 1903); memorial minutes; financial affairs of the committee; donations; building of first manse at Fong T'suen, Canton (1903); applicaiton for financial assistance for a native teacher at "The Neck", Stewart Island; manufacture of arrowroot and sale in NZ; New Hebrides: training of native religious teachers; printing of booklet and postcards; mission collection boxes; missionary language studies; native unrest; sickness and deprivations; recommendations from missionaries; "Dayspring" Fund; setting up better means of disseminating "Mission Intelligence" to parishes; assisting American Presbyterian Mission at Canton (1906), purchase of land at Yan Woh, China (1906); possible union of Chinese Presbyterian Church in China and reasons against union of missions working in China (1906); work among Chinese on West Coast and purchase of mission hall at Greymouth (1907); liquor trade and alcoholism in the New Hebrides; purchase of village sites in China incl. Ko Tong (1907); discussion re opening a PCNZ Mission Area in India (1907); proposed union of theological education with US and Canadian missions in Canton (1907); sending of mission aid boxes to New Hebrides; funding of native New Hebridean teachers; purchase of land and building a school at Sha Luet; establishment of "Break of Day" children's paper; appointed by parishes of "Own Missionaries"; report from Dr WJ Porteous re establishing an Indian Mission Field in the Punjab (1909); earthquake and storm damage to Ko Tong Hospital, China; establishment of JG Paton Memorial Hospital at Vila (1909); missionary exhibition in Dunedin (1910); labour troubles and villification of missionaries by French Traders in New Hebrides (1910): start of mission work at Shahabad, India; (1910); Annual inland tour reports among southern NZ Chinese; purchase of land on "Dumb Bell" (Cheung Chau) Island, Hong Kong for rest homes (1911); allegations of illegal mission trading of goods in New Hebrides (1911); opening of mission station at Jagadhri and commencement of building (1911); transfer of the mission's secretary Rev A Don to Palmerston North; intimation of the Laymen's Mission Movement "Every Member Campaign" to raise 11,400 pounds for Canton Villages Mission land purchase and buildings; proposal for convenor's visit to China delayed by rebellion (1913); joint Presbyterian/Anglican deputation to NZ Premier re condition of New Hebrides (1913); political unrest in China (1913).
 
 

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