Group Title : Subject File

Series Title : Advisory Board of the General Assembly

Date(s) : 1929 to 1935

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Item Description : This file contains inwards & outwards correspondence, minutes of meetings & reports concerning the
"Advisory Board of the General Assembly" which directed the General Assembly on budget & expenditure matters due to financial stringency in the Church. The Foreign Missions Committee was at all times represented on the Board.

Major Topics Include : Minutes of Advisory Board meetings; "Youth Committee" report (1929); Foreign Missions Committee general responsibilities (1929); "Youth of the Church" re-organization proposals (1929); Memorandum on administration of Foreign Missions & future alternatives (1929); budget estimate submissions; minutes of Advisory Board sub-committee dealing with memoranda from various committees including Foreign, Home, Maori, Publications & Youth Committees (1929); memo from Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union (1929); memo. Re Church architecture (1929); financial estimates for Foreign Missions, Theological Hall, Knox College, Life & Work, Youth of the Church, Maori
Mission, Home Mission & Sustentation Fund Committees (1929-1933); requests for sanctioning of special appeals; Life &
Work Committee correspondence; list of members of the Advisory Board (1931, 1933); copy of Moderator's appeal for funds (1931); suggestions for financial campaign (1931); appeal to congregations (1931); self-denial week (1931);
constitution of the Advisory Board (1932); order of service for a "Missionary Demonstration" including the ordination of the Rev BC Nottage (1932); Advisory Board meeting agendas; request for NZ Government to remit bank exchange on Foreign Mission remittances (1933); Advisory Board report of "Special Committee" to investigate possible economies including transferring control of New Hebrides Mission work to Australia; proposal for a combined Missions Board and to transfer the Missions Committee to Wellington from end of 1935 (1934); Presbyterian Church General Treasurer's financial statement to Advisory Board (1934); copy of Advisory Board "Committee of Investigation" referring to a combined Missions Board to be
domiciled in Wellington & recommendations (1934); copy of report on reducing expenditure written by Rev WJ Comrie for the
"Investigation Committee" (1934).
 

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