BIBLE SOCIETY'S YEAR
An extension of' operations was anticipated after the -war, said the Rev. David Colder , Dominion secretary of the British and-Foreign Bible Society, at the annual meeting of the Auckland auxiliary in the -Baptist Tabernacle last evening.- Archbishop Averill presided. - . T. ■ Mr Calder said an increase of 4u,000,000 in six years among literates in China would- cause increased sales of Bibles. As part of rehabilitation plans the society hoped to extend operations considerably in Spain : and Russia. In the Dominion Maori Bibles would be out of print this year and a new translation was being Pl Miss e Margaret Young, .of the New Zealand Board of Missions, giving an account of the activities of the Auckland auxiliary during the past year, said total receipts from all sources, were £C2S9.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 281, 26 November 1943, Page 5
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