CHURCH OF CHRIST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27059, 19 April 1949, Page 9

CHURCH OF CHRIST

MISSION IN RHODESIA CONTROLLED BY NEW ZEALANDERS PA GISBORNE, Apl. 18. A report on the church’s mission at Dayada, Southern Rhodesia, was presented to the Dominion conference of the Church of Christ, now being held in Gisborne. It was reported that the mission is under the control of Mr Garfield Todd, who for the past 15 years has been missionary superintendent. He has associated with him Mr and Mrs Bell. All three are New Zealanders, and it stated that Mr Todd accompanied by his wife, hopes to return to New Zealand in time for next year’s Dominion conference at Invercargill. The mission now has under its control 26 village schools and one central school at Dayada. Three thousand scholars are receiving secular and religious education in these schools, compared with 915 scholars in 1935. Mr Todd had donated 500 acres of arable land during the year, and the Beit Trust of South Africa had given £IO.OOO for the erection of buildings. The Government was also subsidising the work of the church in Southern Rhodesia.