Mission secretary
The Re'v. R. A. Alcorn, of Auckland, has been appointed by the International Council of the Leprosy Mission in London to be their secretary for South-East Asia. Mr Alcorn will supervise all the mission’s activities in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Thailand, and in Indonesia will co-ordinate the work of the 24-member International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Organisations, a European group based in Amiens, France.
He will replace the present secretary, Mr W. R. McKeown, of Melbourne, next year and will work from Auckland. Mr Alcorn was bom in Dunedin and trained at the Baptist Theological College in Auckland. He spent 18 years as a missionary in Bangladesh. After his return to New Zealand, he was minister of a Baptist church at Tauranga before joining the Leprosy Mission in 1970 after the retirement of the Rev. M. H. Feist. While he was secretary, New Zealanders’ gifts and legacies to the Leprosy Mission rose from $306000 to $585,000.
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