Group Title : Mission Secretary's Papers
Series Title : Outwards Correspondence - NZ Chinese Missions (Rev W Mawson)
Date(s) : 1928 to Mar 1935
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Item Description : This file contains duplicates of correspondence sent by the Foreign Mission Secretary (Rev W Mawson) concerning New Zealand Chinese Mission.
Note - Some of this correspondence may relate specifically to the Auckland Chinese Church as Rev Mawson continued as honorary secretary and treasurer of this church during this period. This correspondence is also duplicated in the Foreign Missions Committee Secretary's Outwards Correspondence Files (Ref 2.20).
Major Topics Include : typed
extracts of 1928 General Assembly Minutes relating to Auckland Chinese
Church (1928); correspondence with Chinese Evangelists; sale of property
at Greymouth (1929), reference to Willie Wai Lee (1929-1934); reference
to Jack Din, Hikurangi (1929); Christian Chinese Literature; engagement
of Rev. Chau at Auckland (1930); correspondence with Mr FL Law (Dunedin);
correspondence with Rev AL Miller; Chinese in Hawke's Bay Earthquake (1931);
hospital and earthquake relief fund (1931); reference to Mrs Louis Ting
Kit (1931); departure of Mr FL Law to Hawke's Bay (1931); permit application
from Kong Chat Man, wife of Long Sheung Chanwai of Taumarunui (1931); reference
to Rev YS Chau and his wife in China (1931); reference to deputation work
by Miss A Henderson (1932); difficulties of ministering to Chinese in Dunedin
and offer to Rev AL Miller to be placed in Dunedin to assist Chinese (1932);
"Auckland Society for the Protection of Women and Children's" Request to
Government to Ban Employment of White and Maori Girls by Chinese (1932);
Chinese Unemployment (1934); minute of appreciation upon Rev YS Chau completing
four years service (1934); request for extension of residency for Rev YS
Chau and family (1934); refusal of New Zealand Customs to allow wives and
children of Chinese Nationals already in New Zealand to join their husbands;
estate of Mr WYK Chan (1934).
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