FOREIGN MISSIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19776, 28 January 1928, Page 2

FOREIGN MISSIONS

METHODIST SHIM REPORT [Per United Press Association,] AUCKLAND, January 27. Tho annual meeting of the Foreign Mission 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 Solomon Islands group £4,519. Special items included were £2,000 from tho Young Men’s Bible Class Union towards the salary of the medical missionary, and £B6 from the dominion Sunday schools for a surf boat for use at Bougainville. The report was presented through the Government Commissioner in tho Solomons from Dr E. O. Sayers, the re-cently-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 the estimated value of £2OO, and transport and other facilities. It was reported that later in the year Dr Clifford James, who has completed '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 taken towards the establishment of a hospital, to be known as the “ Helena Goldie Hospital.”