ANGLICAN BOARD OF MISSIONS
RECORD SUM SUBSCRIBED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 20.
The record sum of £28,373 was subscribed during the last year for the general work of the six missions coordinated by the New Zealand Anglican Board of Missions. This was reported to the annual meeting of the board.
The previous annual meeting had decided to raise the budget for its expenditure by £lOOO a year for five years to bring it up to £30,000. Last year’s budget therefore was set at £26,000 and it was thus over-sub-scribed by £2373. The budget for this year was set at £27,000.
The board is to open a field in Japan, and hopes soon to appoint a priestheadmaster to’ a school in Kobe.
The meeting authorised grants toward the building of a school for the mission at Tonga and a church for a settlement of Solomon Islanders in Fiji. It was reported that during the year Miss M. Mullin had gone from the Dominion, to the Bishop Azzariah Girls’ High School in India, and that more recently Miss P. Copeland had gone as nursing sister to the Solomon Islands Hospital The board Slopes to be able to send a lady doctor to Sukkur Sind shortly.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25580, 23 August 1948, Page 8
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