PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18253, 23 November 1933, Page 9

PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONS

WORK AMONG itfAftMS DIVISION INTO DISTRICTS < v*.' •> :• • i . An improved financial position compared with last year’s figures, is shoVfn in .a report which has been issued by the missions department of the New Zealand Presbyteran Church. Fon the nine, months. ended August 18, the reduced expediture and increased ceipts, wasv£4ooo better than in 1952, in . which,-year the receipts for,;At»ssio'ns and other gederol schemes of thd Ghurch were 32 per cent below the ex pend i tine for the year/ would , have to-be inereiiseiL-.by, £7<XX) above last year’s receipts if the Aduireh s Obligations were to be nwt. 'Otherwise there would be no alternative bill to reduce the missionary work. " -• ■ The homo and maori. , missions committee was endeavouring to organise move thoroughly the work' m tno outposts, the report adds; /artd'fhr that purpose the field had been divided into four districts, Taupo-Taiimafumii, W,ai-karefnoana-Nuhaka, Bay of Plenty and the Tnhoe or central district. The, assistant superintendent would visit e»fh of these districts in turn,three or four times a year and Would hold a bViet conference with the workers over questions of policy, and applications for baptism and membership. At the present time new buildings at Ruatahuna, ileporoa -and Wairakei' were .beitig’ eriteted. Among other activities iu , conlieiftiort with Maori mission work had been the addition of a small printing presS, at Taupo.