PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 212, 4 June 1929, Page 5

PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONS

WORK IN THE FOREIGN FIELD.

One of the changes made at the last meeting of the Presbyterian General Assembly was the transference of the location of the Foreign Missions Committee to Auckland. For 27 years, since the union of the Northern and Southern churches, this important committee has been in Dunedin. During that period there was a marked development ot the foreign mission activities of the Presbyterian Church, and the two important missions in Canton and in the Punjab were founded. , At the last monthly meeting of the commit-.ee a large amount of business was reviewed. The report on staff showed that this year nine missionaries who have been on furlough are returning to their various fields. Two new nurses have been appointed, Nurse Sage to the_ Mission Hospital at Jagadhn, and Nurse Reid to the Kong Chuen Hospital in.the Canton villages. Two missionaries, Miss Hardie and Miss Mathew, have arrived home on their first furlough from ° India. Miss Mathew was welcomed at the meet ing, and gave an interesting outline ot the work she has been doing dul ? n f <i past five years Dr. A. L. Sutherland, o Jagadhri, is also due on furlough, but will take a post graduate course of study in Great Britain before visiting New reference was made to the misfortune and vexatious delays encountered bv the Southern Cross on her voyage to the Islands. By the courtesy qf the Melanesian Mission Board, the Rev. W. V. and Mrs. Milne were passengers on the mission steamer. A donationi of £25 was voted to the Southern Cross Fund to assist in the extra expenses in'°The'secretary reported that to date the sum of £4IG 14s. 2d. had been I £ cel l/ by the Foreign Missions Office for the Chinese Famine Relief, and had been forwarded to the central fund m Wellington. It was decided to renew the invitation to the Chinese Christian Church in Canton to send a delegate to visit the churches in New Zealand at an e a <y date.' The Rev. Y. S. Taam, who was expected in New Zealand in 1928, v as unable to come owing to urgent need in the church work in Canton.