Group Title : Director of Missions Papers

Series Title : Inwards & Outwards Correspondence - South China Mission Council

Date(s) : Jan 1946 to Dec 1948

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Item Description : This file contains correspondence received and sent by the Director of Missions (Rev DN MacDiarmid) to and from the secretary, chairman and treasurer of the South China Mission Council.

Main Topics Include : return to NZ of interned missionaries (1946); rehabilitation of medical work in South China including building, plant and equipment requirements (1946); emergency staffing requirements (1946); need for extension of Tak Kei School buildings (1946); deliberation on rebuilding of Kaai Hau Hospital or discontinuation of work (1946); re-imbursement for losses of personal property due to World War Two (1946); high cost of living; financial contributions to Kwantung Synod Budget; correspondence from Miss SK Wong, principal of Tak Kei School; references to hospital doctor, Dr Ky Tsang and post graduate training; request by Kwantung Synod for services of Miss FM Wilson at Union Normal Middle School (1946); financial crisis in China (1947); Rev. H. Davies' cottage on Cheung Chau Island and rebuilding (1947); contracting of Mr L. Crozier to take a movie film of the work of the mission (1947); reference to Rev. WK Chan as possibly replacement for Chinese Church, Auckland (1947); arrival of Doctor JK Brown of C.O.R.S.O. at Kong Chuen Hospital (1947); table of comparative salaries paid to mssionaries in China as paid by the NZ Presbyterian Mission, Evangelical United Brethren, United Church of Canada, American Presbyterian Mission, London Mission Society, American Board of Mission, and Methodist Mission Society (1947); short report on effect of new currency regulations in China with references to the black market (1948); difficulty of landing reflief goods in China (1948); gifts to Chines workiers, including General K.K. Ng, due to service to the Mission during World War Two (1948); aim by the Chinese Church of self-sufficiency within 8 years (1947); report of conference of the General Church Council of China at Shanghai 91947); copy of CORSO personnel agreement between "The Internatinal Relief Committee of China and New Zealand Presbyterian Mission Hospital, Kong Chuen, Kwantung" (1948); NZ childrens financial appeal in support of Tak Kei School Building (1948); photographic copy of blue-print of Tak Kei Middle School Building (1948); confirmation of Rev. WK Chan as new Chinese Church Minister, Auckland (1948); death of Dr John Brown at Kong Chuen (1948); estimates of capital needs for South China Mission for next ten years 91948); re-registration of all mission property (1948); minute of appreciation to Rev. DN MacDiarmid (1948); inventory of mission box (1948); Alexander Don Trust Fund (1948); memo on Communist attitude towards missionaries and Christian medical work (1948).
 

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