Group Title : Mission Council President & Secretary's Papers

Series Title : Inwards Correspondence - NZ Missions Committee & Mission Council Members

Date(s) : Feb 1936 to Dec 1948

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Item Description : This file contains correspondence received by the Punjab Mission Council President and Secretary from the NZ Missions Committee and from other members of the Mission Council

Major Topics Include : restraint in using special financial appeals due to impact on regular congregational giving (1936); furloughs; staffing; cine film of Mission (1936); suggestion for establishment of a home in NZ for Missionaries' children (1936); Missionary slaries and allowances; request for regular reports from Missionaries for publication (1937); use of lantern and film slides including cine film on the field (1937); grant to school of Islamics, Lahore (1937); bestowing of Coronation medal on Rev JL Gray (1937); appointed members of the Patiala Committee of the NZ Presb. Church Punjab Mission (1937); renaming of the Kharar Girls' School as the "Henderson Memorial School" in recognition of the work of Misses AE & C Henderson (1938); acknowledgement of minute of appreciation from Rev G Budd (1939); threatened financial retrenchment in Mission work (1939); approval for individual Missionaries to volunteer for War Service (1939); threatened reduction or elimination of Medical Mission work due to budget deficit (1939); approval of extension to Jagadhri Hospital (1940); agenda for meeting of Punjab Mission Council (Oct 1941); suggested greater self-support for Jagadhri Hospital (1944); "dearness" allowance (1945); dissolving of Saharanpur Industrial School organisation and sale of Mission Bungalow (1948).
 

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