CONGREGATIONAL UNION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8738, 12 February 1907, Page 3

CONGREGATIONAL UNION.

Per Press Association. Dunedin, February 11. Home and foreign missions occupied the attention of the Council of the Congregational Union at to-day’s sitting. At the forenoon meeting the Eev. J. S. Baker read a paper an congregational extension in New Zealand,and the 11 cv. A, E, Hunt reported on the London Missionary Society’s auxilaries in New Zealand. The financial statement submitted showed that during the year Wellington contributed £303 Is 2d, Canterbury £145 lb’s Old, and Otago £373 13s 2d. No details from Aack-. fond district had come to hand'. The Bev. J. E, Newell, of Samoa, gave an address on tho South Sea Island Mission, in the course of which ho foreshadowed tho withdrawal of the London Missionary Society from tuo Booth Seas in favour of a more aggressive policy in China and India, Ho made a Strong appeal for New Zealand and Aus-. tralia to send men into the mission field at gapioa and other islands

At the meeting the Levs G. Carr ! , Ik HltCllfll, “lit 1 . J. IT. McKenzie, home missionaries in the Auckland pro-

vince, gave addresses. The sum of jnib Was contributed at the evening‘ meeting towards a church’ at To Kniti.