Group Title : Director of Missions Papers
Series Title : Inwards & Outwards Correspondence - New Hebrides Mission
Date(s) : Oct 1940 to Dec 1947
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Item Description : This file contains correspondence received by the Director of Missions (Rev DN MacDiarmid) concerning the New Hebrides Mission.
Main Topics Include : correspondence
from Rev JG Miller and Rev CK Crump; acknowledgement from native elder
on Nguna for gift of mission boxes (1940); correspondence from the clerk
of the New Hebrides Mission Synod including extracts from Synod Minutes;
adverse effect of Second World War on Island Shipping Service (1940); "Tangoa
Tidings" - the newspaper of the Native Teachers' Training Institute, Tangoa
(Nov 1942); order of worship notice for a service of thanksgiving, including
the singing of the USA, French and British national anthems (Nov 1942);
consideration of engaging Deaconesses for work in the Islands including
copy of letter to PWMU of Victoria (1943); suggestions for the re-organisation
of the New Hebrides Mission Field by Rev CK Crump (1943); Synod appeal
for third missionary worker from New Zealand and discussion on placement
(1943); criticism of Tangoa Teachers' Training Institution; description
of 1944 Synod at Vila by Miss C. Ritchie (1944); Synod's disappointment
at New Zealand's response to their proposals on education (1944); "Notes
on the Proposed Re-Organisation of Missionary Work in the New Hebrides"
By VW Coombes of the N.S.W. Foreign Missions Committee (1944); order of
service (?) and names of children baptised at Lilepo Church (1944); consideration
of new mission launch (1944); circular on re-organisation and future needs
of the New Hebrides Mission including ten year plan, staffing, education
and proposed New Hebrides Presbyterian Church, issued by NSW Foreign Missions
Office (1945); Presbyterian Church of Australia proposed 10 year plan for
the New Hebrides (1945); memorandum on New Hebrides Medical Scheme proposals
(1945); Mrs Agnes Watt memorial window transferred from Kwamera to Church
at Nguna (1945); "A Call for Reinforcements" by Rev JWP Gillan detailing
the urgent need for additional missionaries (1946); proposed changes to
New Hebrides Church Constitution (1947).
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