WORK AMONG MAORIS
PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONS
The report of the home and Maori Mission Committee was before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church today. In presenting the report, the Rev. J. A. Thomson (Remuera) said that the committee had been impressed with the number of charges throughout the country which were in straightened circumstances. The re- j sources of the committee were limited i owing to the economic stress, and it was in such charges that the greatest needs had to be met. Maori mission work today, stated the report, had to grapple with all the problems incidental to ministering to , a people in a transition stage. There was, however, a growing sense of responsibility in the Native Church itself. As authorised by the last Assembly, the committee made application for a block of land to be used as a training farm for Maori boys, and this application had been granted. j It was decided to transfer £1000 from the capital fund towards the purchase of the Opotiki Gospel Temperance Hall and the erection of a residence for the missionaries at Opotiki, and a further £1000 from the capital fund to the general fund.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 116, 12 November 1935, Page 12
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194WORK AMONG MAORIS Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 116, 12 November 1935, Page 12
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