FOREIGN MISSIONS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19220, 28 January 1928, Page 8

FOREIGN MISSIONS.

♦—rTHE METHODIST CHURCH,

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, January 27. The annual meeting, of the Foreign Missions Board of the Methodist Church of New Zealand was held in the Pitt street Church under the chairmanship of the Rev. Dr. H. Ranston, president of the conference. The financial statement, presented by the Rev. G. T. Marshall, showed that the income for 1927 from all sources totalled £IB,OBB. Of this amount the New Zealand Church contributed £13,569, and the Native ' Church in the Solomon Islands group £4519. Special items included were £2OOO from the Young Men's Bible Class Union towards the salary of a medical missionary, and £B6 from the Dominion Sunday Schools for a surt boat for use on Bougainville. A report was presented, through the, Government Commissioner in the Solomons, from Dr. E. C. Sayers, the recently appointed medical missionary, revealing the great need of extensive work to combat diseases prevalent among the natives. An encouraging endorsement of the Board's policy is shown in the Commonwealth Government's action in granting" an annual subsidy of £2OO, with the promise of a liberal supply of drugs, to an estimated value of £2OO, and transport and other facilities. It was reported that later in the year Dr. Clifford James, who has completed his training in the School of Tropical Medicine, London, and has gained the diploma of tropical medicine and hygiene, will proceed to the field. Steps were also taken towards the establishment of a hospital, to be known as the "Helena Goldie Hospital."