PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY
Per Press 'Association. Dunedin, last night. At the Presbyterian Assembly the morning was mainly devoted to students and scholarship regulations and the question of the setting up of an order of deaconesses. In the afternoon tho difference between a Stratford minister and the Taranaki Presbytery was debated in private. The evening waß devoted to reports of missions, when there was a large attendance. After the Maori mission report had been adopted, it was resolved to approve of the establishment of a school for Maori girls at Turakina, and to set aside £4OO from the general fund, authorising tho committee to purchase the Turakina manse if sufficient funds are forthcoming and if maintenance is sufficiently received. The idea is to teach the girls cooking and sewing, and especially the preparation of food for infants. It was mentioned that if the infant mortality were not stopped the Maori race was .doomed. Fully twothirds of the Maori children died before the ago of five years. A motion was carried expressing deep regret at tho accepticn of the resignation of the Bev. Mr Gordon, of Turakina, as Maori mission convenor, and high appreciation of his past services. The report on foreign mis sions, which was optimistic in tone, was adopted.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1046, 13 November 1903, Page 2
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