Taken outside Miss Salmond's 'bungalow' at Jagadhri, women Teachers set out for School in a two wheeled Pony 'ekka', c.1920.

Mission houses were built with large verandahs to afford some relief from the extremely hot temperatures experienced on the Punjab plain. Construction was in brick as white ants would destroy all woodwork.

Veteran Missionary, Miss Alice Henderson (2nd from left), with the teachers and pupils of the New Zealand Presbyterian Mission Boy's School at Dadupur c.1925, complete with two maps of India, a religious print, and arithmetic on the blackboard.

A formidable woman of great determination, Miss Henderson of Lyttleton originally went out to the Church of Scotland Mission at Madras in 1896 where she learnt two Indian languages, one solely so she could train and equip young Telugu women for their life's work. Moving to our own Punjab Mission in 1910 meant having to learn the Indian Urdu language which is read and written from right to left.. She retired in 1933 aged 73 years, later writing a book which puts her many achievements into perspective.

Group photo of the first village boys sent to the new Industrial School at Saharanpur, 1929. This was run in conjunction with the American Presbyterian Mission.

Mr George T. Gray of New Zealand, who held qualifications in mechanical and civil engineering, was employed to start this new area of mission work. Initial training ranged from learning such diverse skills as motor mechanics to woodworking.

A combined Hindu & Muslim Boy's Sunday School (possibly at Nahan), c. 1930's

The Mission has always welcomed children of all religions, having also a definite place in school programmes for Christian instruction. Often from poor rural communities, such children might otherwise have been deprived of a good education and many non-Christian parents were anxious that their children at least receive a good education. Hostels at Kharar provided accomodation for children in a Christian based homely environment.

Games at the Mission Girls' School, Jagadhri, 1930's.

A mud brick building with small windows, this evidently gave some protection from the searing heat of summer which some likened to the 'Fires of Hades'.

Kindergarten Children Jagadhri, c.1935

Based in the Mission Girls' School building, the children are using toys made by the boys at the Industrial School at Saharanpur, a wind-up gramophone sitting on a table donated by St Paul's Presbyterian Church Christchurch, and a white rabbit (in foreground) knitted by Mrs Laura Black, wife of the Rev Bower Black of St. David's Presbyterian Church Auckland.dhri,

Pupils from the Kharar Boy's High School seated in the open-air ampitheatre during an outdoor class, c.1950. Apart from standard academic subjects and Bible studies, trades such as carpentry, weaving, sewing and mechanical repairs were taught.

The Mission having taken over the Kharar District in 1924, the Rev WM Ryburn was then appointed as Principal, a position he later jointly shared with an Indian counterpart. A Girls' school opened at Kharar in 1925, later being renamed the Henderson Memorial Girls' School.

An open-air spinning class at Jagadhri Girls' School, the wheels turned by hand. c.1950