Group Title : Mission Convenor's Papers
Series Title : Inwards Correspondence - New Hebrides Mission (Rev W Hewitson)
Date(s) : 1902 to 1908
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Item Description : This file contains correspondence received by the Foreign Missions Convenor (Rev. W. Hewitson) concerning mission work in the New Hebrides.
Main Topics Include : description
of Tanna Synod and Mission Work in the New Hebrides (1901); death of Rev.
T. Smaill and memorial minute (1902); encroachment of mission work into
Anglican Melanesian Mission Area (1902); promotion of British settlement
in the Islands (1902); debate over lay missionaries (1902); establishment
of hospital at Vila (1904); excerts of New Hebrides Synod Minutes; furlough
entitlements (1906); liquor trade and consequences (1906); need for "Mission
Boxes" (1906); debate on party of furlough leave and allowances with other
missionaries (1908); extracts of translations of native letters to Rev.
O. Michelsen (1908); protest at treatment of native plantation workers
(1905).
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