CHURCH OF CHRIST
RHODESIA MISSION WORK (P.A.) GISBORNE, April 17. A o report on the church’s overseas mission at Dayada, Southern Rhodesia, was presented to the Dominion conference of the Church of Christ being held in Gisborne. The mission is under the control of Mr Garfield Todd, who for the last 15 years has been missionary superintendent. He has associated with him Mr and Mrs ll*- 31. All three qre New Zealanders, and it was stated that Mr Todd, accompanied by his wife, is to return to New Zealand in time for next year’s Dominion conference at Invercargill. The mission now has under its control 26 village schools and one central school at Dadaya. Three thousand scholars are receiving secular and religious education: in these schools, compared with 915 scholars in 1935. Mr Garfield Todd had given 400 acres of arable land during the year, and the Beit Trust of South Africa had given £IO,OOO for the erection of buildings. The Government was also subsidising the work of the church in Southern Rhodesia.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 159, 18 April 1949, Page 4
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