BAPTIST UNION MEETS
WORK IN MISSION FIELDS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. “Missionary Day” was observed to-day at the annual conference of the New Zealand Baptist Union. Reports were received from the mission fields and the conference discussed various aspects of the work. The chairman of the finance committee, Mr. F. N. Andrews, drew attention to the splendid response made by New Zealand Baptists to the appeals from the Indian mission field. A sum of £7046 bad been raised during the year. Miss E. M. Gainsford, secretary of the Baptist Women’s Missionary Union, reported there was a total of 6S branches in tho union and there had been an increase in tho membership of 20 during the year. Miss N. Wilkinson, treasurer, reported the receipts for the year totalled £1653, as compared with £1662 in the previous year. There was a balance in hand of £34. The missionary budget for the year ending August 31, 1930, estimated the receipts at £6745 and payments at £6763.
Speakers criticised the cutting down of the grant for Indian mission work, and it was decided to circularised the budget to the city churches in an endeavour to create greater interest in the work. The budget was adopted.
-A short address on Chinese mission work was given by the Rev. Lui King, of China, and translated by the Rev. W. Lawson.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1929, Page 9
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