Group Title : Director of Missions Papers

Series Title : Outwards Correspondence - General (Rev DN MacDiarmid)

Date(s) : Jan 1942 to Dec 1948

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Item Description : This file contains general Foreign Missions correspondence sent by the Director of Missions (Rev. DN MacDiarmid).

Main Topics Include : correspondence with Australian church mission secretaries; copy of bulletin announcing a re-organisation of work in the New Hebrides to be divided up into three stations instead of two (1943); replies to general mission related enquiries; criticism of Tangoa Training Institute (1943); Mission boxes; donations; news re missionaries interned in China (1943); correspondence to Mrs M. Moore at Kukong, China, mostly concerning finance and news of missionaries (1943); list of suggested goods for mission, home, orphanage and other usage (1943); correspondence to PWMU secretaries; applications for export permits for mission goods; correspondence to Miss N. Moncrief at Chengtu, China (1944); correspondence to prospective missionary candidates; reasons for not appointing Rev. WGK Moore as missionary to New Hebrides (1944); discussion on leper work in the New Hebrides and correspondence with NZ Leper Trust Board (1944-1945); donation of books in native New Hebridean text to Auckland Institute and Museum (1945); applicaiton for permit to travel to New Hebrides (1945); discussion o extension of educational and medical work in New Hebrides (1945); correspondence to Dr Peter Milne re history of Rev Peter Milner (snr) (1945); agenda for meeting of representatives of the Missions Committee, Finance Committee and South China Field Council to discuss South China salaries, re-imbursements for war losses, refunds for advances, rehailitation and staffing (1946); proposed leprosy survey in New Hebrides (1946); correspondence to NZ Bible Class Union Secretary (1946); discussion on suitable missionary candididate for China including Rev. OT Baragwanath (1946); correspondence to New Hebrides Mission Synod Clerk; correspondence to Rev. AA Brash re position at Union Theological College, Canton (1946); gifting of missionary manse in Wellington (1946); taking up of leper work in the New Hebrides by the Melanesian Mission (1946); discussion on setting up a Pacific Mssionary Association (1946);  suggested conference between Girls' Auxiliary and P.W.M.U. to co-ordinate work (1946); difficulties of special mission appeals (1946); press report of New Zealand exploitation of Samoa (1946); appointement of Presbyterian Church representatives to National Council of Churches to discuss co-operation in use of church buildings in new housing areas (1946); difficulties with arranging passages for missionaries returning to the field and shipping of mission boxes to China (1946); contents of mission boxes shipped to China and bill and lading (1946); short report on "Inter-Station Tele-Radio Installations" in the New Hebrides (1946); obituary for preacher Kom To Cheung (1947); correspondence to Dr S.N. Talib-ud-din (1947); permit for Dr Ky Tsang to enter and study in NZ (1948).
 

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