PRESBYTERIAN FOREIGN MISSIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20222, 7 October 1927, Page 6

PRESBYTERIAN FOREIGN MISSIONS.

MEETING OF COMMITTEE. The Presbyterian Foreign Mission Committee held an adjourned meeting on Tuesday evening, the convener, Rev. G. H. Jupp, presiding. Motions of sympathy were passed in connection with the death of Dr Kenneth Miller, a pioneer missionary candidate, and Mr J. W. Bowles, mission secretary of St. Andrew’s, Christchurch. It was agreed to ask the assembly, at its opening meeting, to appoint a representative committee to consider the situation arising out of the resignation of the secretary, and also tho question of the location* and constitution of the commitThe South Island Oriental Depot of the P.W.M.L. was heartilv thanked for setting aside the sum of £650 as tho nucleus of a fund to provide a rest home in the hills of India. Consideration was given to a memorandum submitted by the secretary, and it was agreed to approve of a conference with the publications and other committees with view to furthering the circulation of tho Outlook; and also to invite the assembly's Finance Committee to consider "a number of suggestions with regard to finance. Tiie general treasurer’s statement showed a heavy deficit in the mission fund, and recommendations were adopted in connection therewith. It was pointed out that while the receipts from congregations were practically stationary there had been received during the year from legacies, urn fettered bv trust conditions, the sum of £6591 Os lid CANTON VILLAGES MISSION. The Canton Council’s estimates of expenditure for the year, totalling approximately £9OO, were approved; and the Kwangtung Synod’s estimate of the amount required by them for carrying on the work formerly controlled by the New Zealand Mission, totalling approximately £1750, was also approved. . Miss A. D. Hancock wrote from Berkeley, San Francisco, where she expects to complete her course of post-graduate study about the end of tho year. INDIAN MISSION. The Rev. J. L. Gray reported that there had now been received £1920 towards the Indian Industrial Work Fund of £2OOO, which ho had been authorised to raise. He expected to leave by the Marama from Auckland on October 14. NEW HEBRIDES MISSION. Sympathy was expressed in connection with the death of Mr Smith-Revise, British Resident Commissioner in tho kew Hebrides, who had laboured unsparingly for the’uplift of the islanders. The committee resolved to congratulate the Rev. O. Michelscn on his jubilee as a missionary in the It was reported that Mr J. W. Mansfield, missionary of North Ambnm, was on short furlough, and expected to leave Sydney for the Dominion on the 7th inst The New Hebrides Mission Synod recommended that Mr Mansfield be ordained. Sympathy was expressed with Mr Mansfield in the loss of his launch, tho Robert Lamb, which became a total wreck on August 15 owing to the chain breaking in a hurricane. Her engine and some of tne Lar were s ave d. Mr Mansfield estimates Ambrim, in Mr Mansfield’s district, was his loss at over £2OO. „ . , „ The new church hall at Craig s Cave, ■opened by the Rev. M. Frater on August and Is to be known as the D: ». iBowie Hall.