PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
(By Telegraph—Press Associgition)
DUNEDIN, Bth March
The Presbyterian Assembly met' again to-day, when the 'Theological Hall, report was presented. It was resolved l •to approve changes in the entrance schol-j aiship examination to the hall and to’ the syllabus of studies prescribed. It was agreed to sanction the .scholarship proposals for the session 1930, and empower the committee to ’grant such additional .scholarships as the stale of the funds and the the trusts connected therewith may warrant. It was agreed that the district of Tnupo he. removed from the jurisdiction of the Wanganui Presbytery and placed under that of Waikato, and that the boundary between the Wanganui and Waikato Presbyteries follow the line of the Wanganui River. It. was agreed that the Rev. J. G. Laughton lie transferred to the Waikato Presbytery. A motion was carried drawing attention to the evil of the sale of alcohol in the New Hebrides.
The Rev. I), D. Scott, of Onehunga, presented the home mission report, which disclosed a year of further progress.
It was decided that the 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 mission report, the resignation of the Rev. Oscar Michclseii, for 52 years missionary in the New Hebrides, was accepted, and the retirement of the Rev. J. W. Alansfield, on account of age, was decided on. A new station is to he opened at Alakaru, in the New Hebrides, in place of the one. destroyed at Wuro last June. Aliss Ann Allen is to join the staff in the Punjab in India, and Dr. Kathleen Pill the Canton village mission. An invitation is to he sent to the Church of Christ in China to send a delegate to visit the churches of the Dominion.
The Rev. William Alawson, who was appointed temporary foreign mission secretary at last assembly, was elected to the office permanently.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 11 March 1930, Page 7
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