New Hebrides Mission - Correspondence

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ID Key1126Parent1125Group TitlePresbyterian Overseas Missions CollectionSeries TitleInwards Correspondence -- New Hebrides (Rev W Hewitson & Mr PL Clarke) Name EntryForeign Missions Committee Last edited by: Andrew Smith

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Date1909-1913DescriptionInwards Letter FileAuthorForeign Missions CommitteeDetailThis file contains copies of letters received by the Foreign Missions Committee Convenor (Rev. W. Hewitson) and the Foreign Missions Committee Secretary (Mr PL Clark), concerning work in the New Hebrides.
Major topics include :- desirability of funding; staffing and maintaining mission hospitals at both Ambrim and Vila (1908); invoices for provisions obtained by Dr JT Bowie (1909); production of arrowroot to aid mission funds and printing of books in native language; synod prohibition on missionary training with natives (1909); deputation work in New Zealand by Rev. TE Riddle (1910); Rev. O. Michelsen implicated in training (1911); request to partially fincially support Tangoa Teachers' Training Institution (1912); requirements for translation of religious works into native dialects (1912); request for a second doctor and nurse at Ambrim Hospital (1913); need for school for white and half-caste children and an industrial school (1913); printing and sale of books in native language (1913); telegram notifying destruction of Ambrim Hospital and station (1913); account of destruction of Ambrim Hospital and volcanic eruption (1913); correspondence from Clerk of New Hebrides Synod (Rev. T. MacMillan).SubjectGeneral Assembly - Committees - Foreign Missions Committee Hewitson, William Last edited by: Andrew Smith

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New Hebrides-Ambrim Disaster Last edited by: Andrew Smith

New Hebrides Synod-Correspondence Last edited by: Andrew Smith

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