Group Title : Mission Secretary's Papers

Series Title : Inwards & Outwards Correspondence - General Treasurer of PCNZ (Rev W Mawson)

Date(s) : Jan 1933 to May 1935

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Item Description : This file contains correspondence received from the General Treasurer of the Presbyterian Church of NZ and copies of correspondence sent by the Foreign Missions Secretary (Rev W Mawson) to the General Treasurer.

Major Topics Include : Statements of Mission receipts & payments compiled by Foreign Missions Secretary, shortage on financial remittances to China (1935), Missionary salaries & re - imbursementof expenses, New Hebrides land title registration (1934), Death of Rev W.Y.K. Chan (1934), change of name from "Canton Villages Mission" to "South China Mission" & legal position (1934), Post Graduate study fund reports & returns, application from Miss Alice Henderson to join Beneficiary fund & reduction of term of service to exclude period 1896 to 1909 (1934), proposition for Church of Scotland to provide credit in London against credits to their favour in New Zealand for two years due to NZ Gov't increase on international exchange rate to £25 per centum (1933), proposal for short term borrowing in Canton to avoid financial crisis in Mission funding (1933), need for increased financial support for missions or future retrenchment (1933), criticism over long absences from the field for Missionary Post Graduate study purposes (1933).
 

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