Group Title : Mission Convenor's & Mission Secretary's Papers
Series Title : Inwards Correspondence - New Hebrides Mission (Rev W Hewitson & Rev A Don)
Date(s) : 1914 to 1923
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Item Description : This file contains correspondence received by the Foreign Missions Convenor (Rev. W. Hewitson) and the Foreign Missions Committee Secretary (Rev. A. Don), concerning mission work in the New Hebrides.
Main Topics Include : discussion
on New Hospital site (1914); description of Ambrim disaster (1914); re-settlement
of Ambrim refugees (1914); cost of building and staffing Vila Hospital
(1914); notification of departure of Canadian Mission from work in the
New Hebrides (1913); New Hebrides Synod budget apportionments; discussion
on transfer of Dr Bowie to Ko T'ong Hospital, South China (1915); account
of official complaint laid against Dr David Crombie of the Paton Memorial
Hospital, Vila and the subsequent court case (1915); need for trained european
women teachers for children (1917); request by New Hebrides Synod that
Rev. P. Milne (Snr) remain after retirement age as a "Senior Missionary"
(1917); hurricane damage at Aneityum and Futuna (1917); letter written
by Rev. W. Hewitson (en-route to Sydney) commemorating the increase in
cost of living (1920); dramatic increase in cost of living (1920); minute
of appreciate on jubilee of New Zealand Mission Work in the New Hebrides
(1920); minute stressing benefit of British rule in the New Hebrides rather
than joint rule with the French (1920); letter from Rev. WV Milne describing
difficulties with his father, Rev. P. Milne (Snr) (1920); need for new
missionary on North Epi and later on Tongoa (1921); French efforts to take
full control of islands and possible implicatins on Protestant Mission
Work (1921); letter to Waitahuna Sunday School from James Mansfield on
Paama Island (1923); pamphlet "The New Hebrides Situation" and French injustices
(1921); correspondence from Clerk of New Hebrides Synod (Rev. T. MacMillan).
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