THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1930, Page 3

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

DUNEDIN, March 7. The Presbyterian Assembly met agaiij to-day. i e i iKuiu-gicaJ Ha'll- report was presented. li was resolved to approve changes in the entrance sciiol-■•‘S-V examination u> the Flail, and

the syllabus of studies prescribed. The Rev. E. J. Tipler moved, the Rev. G. H. Ju,pp seconded, and it wa.s agreed, to sanction the scholarship 'proposals for tlie session 1931), and empower tiie committee to grant such additional scholarships as the state of the funds and the conditions of the trusts connected therewith may warrant.

The Rev. J, If. Mackenzie moved, the Rev. J. Paterson seconded, and it ■vas agreed, .“That the district of laupo. he removed from the jurisdiction of. the Wanganui Presbytery and

placed under that of Waikato, and that the boundary between the Wanganui and Waikato Presbyteries follow tlie line off the Wanganui river.”

It was agreed that the Rev. J. G. Laughton he transferred to the Waikato Presbytery. ’ The. following motion was carried unanimously :—-“That the Asseuibl • draw attention to the serious reports in the correspondence off omr missionaries' of the prevalence of the sale of alcoholic liquors to the natives in the New Hebrides, contrary to the terms of the Constitution of the Condominium, and urge tlie International Labour Office of the League of Nations and the International League for the protection of native races to exert their influence to; induce the authorities in these islands to enfor e the prohibition of the supply of alcoholic liquor to the natives. ’’ The Rev. D. D. Sc-ott. of Onehunga, presented the home mission report, which disclosed a year of further progress.

It was decided that the three committees which have been dealing with Church extension be combined in the 'Home Mission. Committee, whose location was changed from Auckland to Wellington.

In connexion with the foreign mission report, the resignation of tho Rev. Oscar Miclu'lseii, for 52 years missionary in the New Hebrides, was accepted, and the retirement of the Rev. J. AV. Mansfield on account of age was decided on. A new station is to lie opened at Makani, in the New Hebrides, in place of the one destroyed at Wuro last June. Aliss Ann Allen is to join the staff in the Punj>b in India, and Dr Kathleen Pih (!--' Canton village mission. An invitation is to bo sent to the .Church of. Christ iii China to send a' delegate to visit the churches of the Dominion,

The Rev. Wm. Alnwson was appointed. foreign mission secretary.