Group Title : Director of Missions Papers

Series Title : Inwards & Outwards Correspondence - Punjab Mission

Date(s) : Jan 1939 to Dec 1948

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Item Description : This file contains correspondence received and sent by the Director of Missions (Rev. DN MacDiarmid) to and from the Punjab Mission Council Secretary, Treasurer and Chairman and the PCNZ General Treasurer concerning the Punjab Mission and Missionaries.

Main Topics Include : additions to Jagadhri Hospital Men's Ward (1939); request from General Tresurer to avoid large remittances to India due to exchange restrictions (1939); furloughs; "Indianistion" and use of qualified Indian Staff in the mission (1939); future planned improvements to Jagadhri Hospital (1939); Reserve Bank Refusal to allow transfer of funds to mission areas for capital expenditure and repairs (1939); "NZ Presbyterian Mission Provident Fund Rules" (1940); discussion of further need to place control of mssion affairs in Indian hands and need to set up a board to administer all work and financial grants (1943); desire of Indian Mission to move slowly with "Indianisation" plan (1943); travel difficulties during the war (1943); preparation of memoranda on future relationship between chruch and state should the British Government withdraw from India (1945); history of the "Indian Sites and Building Fund" from 1913 (1945); request for increase in dearness allowance (1945); Inter-Missions Office Bombay "Travel Suggestions for Missionary Travellers to India" (as at 1939); notes on the future of mission and (the) state of Indai (c. 1945); comparison of pre and post war commodity prices (1945); minutes of a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Christian Industrial School at Saharanpur to discuss various options for its future (1945); copy of power of attorney granted to Rev. W.M. Ryburn and Rev. M.R. Robinson by the NZ Presbyterian church Property Trustees (1946); building of replacement Jagadhri Girls' School Building (1946); disturbances in the Punjab due to political division of India (1947); relief supplies for refugees and famine (1947); transfer of Muslims to Pakistan (1947); high cost of living in post-war India (1947); settling of issue between India and Pakistan and continuing disturbances in Kashmir (1948); minutes of the Christian Industrial School, Saharanpur and the dissolution of the school (1948); proposed constitution of the "United Board of Christian Work", East Punjab (1948); anti Hindu, Christian and British attitude from Sikh population in the Punjab (1948); financial estimates for mission capital expenditure during 1948 to 1958 (1947); resignation of Dr A.L. Sutherland from 1950 (1948); Indian Government requisition of vehicles (1948); re-introduction of food rationing (1948); proposal to open vocational industrial training at Kharar (1948); council desire for cine film of Indian Mission Work (1948); proposed Union Christian College in East Punjab and co-operation with Women's Christian Medical College at Ludhiana (1948); correspondence re the Landour Community Hospital (1948).
 

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