Group Title : Director of Missions Papers

Series Title : Inwards Correspondence - General (Rev DN MacDiarmid)

Date(s) : 11 Aug 1939 to 31 Dec 1944

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Item Description : This file contains general Foreign Missions correspondence received by the Director of Missions (Rev. DN MacDiarmid).

Main Topics Include :  itineration work in NZ; correspondence from Busy Bees, Bible Class Union and Presbyterian Womens Missionary Union; correspondence from secretary of Victorian Church (Australia) Foreign Missions Committee; correspondence form Assistant-Director of Missions (Rev. JM McKenzie); minutes of meeting of the Missionary Education Committee (15 June 1942); request to send NZ representative to New Hebrides (1943); urgent request from New Hebrides Synod for additional Missionary to fill a vacancy on Malekula or Tanna (1943); translated letter from Chinese staff-member at Kong Chuen during World War Two with references to interned missionaries (1943); general correspondence concerning China, India and New Hebrides Missions; pamphlet reprinted from "The National Christian Review" detailing the N.C.C. Executive Committees' plan for closer co-operation between various mission and church bodies in India (1943); memorandum prepared by Assistant Director of Missions (Rev. JM McKenzie) on future staffing plans for South China Mission and setting up of an "advance base" at Kukong before moving back into Kwantung (1944); letter from P.W.T.I. principal re Miss Mitchell, a prospective volunteer for Mission service (1944); reply from boatbuilder in Sydney for 20 foot whaleboat with outboard motor (1944); New Hebrides Synod appeal for thirteen women workers (1944); list of books in native New Hebridean texts donated by the Missions Committee to the Auckland Institute and Museum (1944).
 

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