Group Title : Subject File
Series Title : Rev. FG Bowie (Tangoa Training Institute)
Date(s) : 1913 to 1934
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Item Description : This
file contains correspondence written between Rev. FG Bowie (of the
Free Church of Scotland Mission), Principal of the Tangoa Training Institute
New Hebrides, and the Secretary of the NZ Foreign Missions Committee.
NB - this folder also includes a letter written
to the convener of the Synod of Otago and Southland Missions Committee.
Major Topics Include : liason
between NZ Foreign Missions Committee and the Tangoa Training Institute;
financial support; sale of arrowroot and native crafts and products; the
New Hebrides "Partition Proposal" (c. 1921-1924); Anglo-French rivalry;
importation of foreign labour for British and French plantations; letter
to Rev. FG Bowie from Rev. O. Michelsen (1930); death of Mrs Bowie (1931);
"New Hebrides to be French or British?" (c. 1931); tributes and obituaries
upon death of Rev. Bowie on 7 Dec 1933.
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