Group Title : Meeting Papers and Reports
Series Title : General Reports - New Hebrides Mission
Date(s) : 1935 to 1948
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Item Description : This file contains typed annual reports for the New Hebrides Mission including Nguna, Tongoa, Tanna, Emae, Makura, Mataso, Tongariki, Puninga, Eri and Paama.
Main Topics Include : Translation
of religious books and hymns to native language; missions buildings; statistics;
incursion by Seventh Day Adventist Mission (1936); death of Rev. WV Milne
(1937); medial and health work; native education; the "John Frum" Movement
on Tanna (1941); need for new native music and dancing to preserve the
"The Good in the Old" (1941); evangelistic work; desire to place more responsibility
in the native church (1944); Mt Moriah Training School (1944); Effect of
the military occupation (1944); native deaconesses (1945); the "Yahan"
movement on Ambrim (1947); centenary celebrations of 100 years of missionary
work in the New Hebrides (1948).
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