Group Title : Mission Secretary's Papers

Series Title : Inwards Correspondence - (Rev HH Barton & Rev W Mawson)

Date(s) : 1 Jan 1928 to 31 Dec 1931

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Item Description : This file contains copies of inwards correspondence received by the Foreign Mission's Secretaries (Rev. HH Barton, 1928, and Rev W. Mawson,  1928 to 1935), arranged in subject order. Letters in this file for 1928 are noted with the date of receipt and a consecutive number and for 1929 onwards, only with the date of receipt.

Major Topics Include : donations and gifts; correspondence from YWBC Union (1928); correspondence from PWMU branch secretaries and missionary manse secretary; blank copy of missionary contract; correspondence from Foreign Missions Secretary, Victoria, and references to Mr. Mansfield (1930); correspondence from "League of Nations" International Labour Office re New Hebrides liquor traffic (1930); correspondence concerning Institute of Pacific Relations Survey of Pacific Peoples (1930); sponsorships and "Own Missionaries"; sponsorship of native New Hebridean teachers (1933); deputation work; "Livingstone Missionary Training College", London, prospectus; visit of Dr Thornton (United Church of Canada) to New Zealand; correspondence from "Youth Committee of the NZ Council of Religious Education" and Dr TZ Koo's request for a worker among students in the colleges of China (1931); resignations.
 

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