Group Title : Mission Convenor's & Mission Secretary's Papers
Series Title : Inwards Correspondence - New Hebrides Mission (Rev W Hewitson & Mr PL Clark)
Date(s) : 1909 to 1913
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Item Description : This file contains copies of letters received by the Foreign Missions Committee Convenor (Rev. W. Hewitson) and the Foreign Missions Committee Secretary (Mr PL Clark), concerning work in the New Hebrides.
Main Topics Include : desirability
of funding; staffing and maintaining mission hospitals at both Ambrim and
Vila (1908); invoices for provisions obtained by Dr JT Bowie (1909); production
of arrowroot to aid mission funds and printing of books in native language;
Synod prohibition on missionary trading with natives (1909); deputation
work in New Zealand by Rev. TE Riddle (1910); Rev. O. Michelsen implicated
in trading (1911); request to partially fincially support Tangoa Teachers'
Training Institution (1912); requirements for translation of religious
works into native dialects (1912); request for a second doctor and nurse
at Ambrim Hospital (1913); need for school for white and half-caste children
and an industrial school (1913); printing and sale of books in native language
(1913); telegram notifying destruction of Ambrim Hospital and station (1913);
account of destruction of Ambrim Hospital and volcanic eruption (1913);
correspondence from Clerk of New Hebrides Synod (Rev. T. MacMillan).
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