LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17523, 5 July 1917, Page 2

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY

ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the London Missionary Society was held in Trinity Congregational Church last night, tho Rev H. Johnston presiding over a good attendance. Mr G. M. Hayley read the annual Rtatcmont, whHi showed that £145 17s 5d had been raised during the year, which was an increase of 27$ per cent on last year. The contribution was the largest on record. The feature of the evening was an address bv the Rev W. C. Willouehby on the Tigerkloof Institution. Thirteen years ago, said Mr Willoughhy, he unspanned his oxen and pitched his tent on the spot where the insttitntion now stands. To-day there existed a hnge pile of buildings, valued at over £7O 000. The institution was famous in every part of South and Central Africa. The native inmates represented every tribe south of the Zambesi. The institution comprised an industrial department, a department for the education of the sons of chiefs and normal departments for the training of native school teachers, a theological college for the training of native teachers for native churches, and a girls' school. Mr Wi'loushhv stnted that he had spent about thirty-five years in South and Central Africa. Tn 1883 he was deputed bv Kinsr Mirnmho to approach the British Government to take over his tcrritorv to prevent it beinsr seized bv Germany or any other nation. In 1895 he took Kin<r Khama and other native chiefs to London. They went to oppose tho claims of the Chartered Company to their tcrritorv,