Group Title : Mission Council Secretary's Papers
Series Title : Outwards Correspondence - NZ Missions Committee
Date(s) : 1936 to 1941
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Item Description : This File contains copies of correspondence sent by the Canton Villages/South China Mission Council Secretary (Rev H Davies) to the NZ Missions Committee Superintendent (Rev G Budd, 1936-1939), and the Director of Missions (Rev DN MacDiarmid, 1939-1941).
Main Topics Include : Mission
cable codes (1936); Missionary movements and furloughs; post-graduate studies
by Dr K Pih (1936); marriage of Miss J McNeur (1936); reference to
Dr Ross Wong (1936); political change in South China (1936); notes for
Mr Gilbert's cine pictures of the Mission (1937); Japanese fighting and
blockade of coastline (1937); bombing at Kong Chuen (1938); accounts of
Japanese enemy action and bombing (1938); Japanese occupation of areas
of Canton and areas of Kwantung (1938); effect of Japanese occupation on
Mission activities (1938 on); Death of Dr O Eaton (1939); engagement of
Dr Bjork at Kong Chuen Hospital (1939); Mission statistics (1939); evacuation
from Hong Kong of British women and children (1939); engagement of Dr George
Grätzer as Hospital Superintendent at Kong Chuen (1939).
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