PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY
MANY QUESTIONS DEALT WITH
Dunedin, March 7. At the Presbyterian Assembly it was resolved to approve the changes in the entrance scholarship examination to Theological Hall and the syllabus of studies prescribed. It was agreed “to sanction the scholarship proposals for session 1930, and empower the committee to grant such additional scholarships as the state of the funds and conditions of the trusts connected therewith may warrant.”
The following resolution were carried :—
“That the district of Taupo be removed from the jurisdiction of the Wanganui Presbytery and placed under that of the Waikato, and that the boundary between tho Wanganui and Waikato Presbyteries follow the line of the Wanganui river. “That the Rev. J. G. Laughton be transferred to the Waikato Presbytery.” “That the Assembly draw attention to the serious reports in the correspondence of our missionaries of the prevalence of the sale of alcoholic liquor to the natives in the New Hebrides contrary to the terms of constitution of the Condominium, and urge the International Labour Office of the League of Nations and the International League for the Protection of Native Races to exert their influence to induce the authorities in the islands to enforce the prohibition ot the supply of alcoholic liquor to the natives.” “That three committees which have been dealing with church extension be combined in the home mission committee, whose location was changed from Auckland to 'Wellington.”
in connection with the foreign missio report, the resignation of the Rev. Oscar Michelsen, for 52 years missionary in the New Hebrides, was accepted, and the retireipent of the Rev. J. W. Mansfield on account of age was decided on. A new station is to be opened at Makaru m the New Hebrides in place of the one destroyed at Wuro last June. Miss Allan is to join the staff in the Punjab in India, and Dr. Kathleen Pih the Canton village mission. An invitation is to be sent to the Church of Christ in China to send a delegate to visit the churches of the Dominion.
The Rev. W. Mawson, who was appointed temporary foreign mission secretary at the last Assembly was elected to tho office permanently.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 72, 8 March 1930, Page 8
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