ANGLICAN MISSIONS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 282, 27 August 1942, Page 6

ANGLICAN MISSIONS

Record Receipts Last Year

A record amount of £26,143 was received last year by the New Zealand Anglican Board of Missions. The previous highest total was £23,81-1 received in 1940. The board works on the quota system, and there is a healthy rivalry among the seven dioceses to obtain the highest percentage above the set quota. This year Nelson Diocese topped the poll with ii percentage of 140 per eent. Next clime Wellington with 135 per cent., Christchurch with 133 per cent., and Dunedin witli 132 per cent. The receipts this year were swollen by the proceeds of a special appeal for “orphaned or imperilled” missions, namely, those whose support from European countries was cut off by the war. This amounted to £1950. Toward this sum the contribution of Wellington Diocese was easily first, bein'' £7Ol. Christchurch mid Waiapu Dioceses each gave £3:19 and Auckland £243 ; £l5OO of the total had already been forwarded abroad. £325 each to missions in Tanganyika. Jerusalem. China and India mid £lOO each to Belgian Congo and Tahiti. Of the ordinary receipts-of the board £BOOO was given to the Melanesian Mission. £6OOO to the New Zealand Church Missionary Society for its work in India. Chinn and Africa. £l3OO to Polynesia (Fiji, Samoa and Tonga), £llOO to the S.P.G. for North Chinn. £719 for Jerusalem, mid smaller amounts elsewhere. . . , . , Xt the annual meeting ot the board, held ti few days ago, satisfaction was expressed at such a large sum having been realized Budgets for the incoming year were fixed as for hist year with, the excoption of an increase in tlie allotment for Polynesia, the importance of the work in this' area having been stressed