Bible Publications

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 March 1915, Page 4

Bible Publications

NEW ZEALAND'S CONTRIBUTION'S. The New Zealand agent of the Britain! Foreign Bible Society has forwarded the statement of the amount laised in New Zealand during 191-1. In the whole of New Zealand about £1450 was remitted. The different auxiliaries contributing about: —North Auckland £11, Auckland £200, South Auckland £63, Bay of Plenty £31. Taranaki £136, Wanganui £200, Manawatu £79, Poverty Bay £96. Hawke's Bay £225, Wairarapa £82. Wellington £05, Nelson £9; Wesland £16. North Canterbury and Christehurch £125, South Canterbury £118, miscellaneous £9. Places in the Manawatu auxiliary contributed the following. —Apiti £5 13s, Colyton £8 os; Feilding £12 10s, Foxton £14 10s, Halcombo £1 7s Gd. Kimbolton £3 lis 2d. Levin £7 5s 3d. Palnierston £5 9s, Rongotea £5 16s, Sanson 12s. Shannon £2 4s, Tokomaru £3 16b 6d, miscellaneous £7 14s 2d; total £78 lis lid. At the present time the Society is particularly busy in supplying belligerents of all nations with suitably bound copies of the Scriptures or a portion of them each in their own language. In Japan the hold the Bible has gained upon the leaders in that Empire is remarkable, the Premier, Comet Oku ma, has invited ihe World Sunday School Convention to hvae its next conference at Tokio in 1916. When asked b v an American man what led him to do this he replied : "I have in mind the establishment of Sunday Schools throughout the empire, bo that all, both young and old, may spend their Sundays in studying the Bible."