PRESBYTERIANS MEET

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 916, 8 March 1930, Page 8

PRESBYTERIANS MEET

REPORTS PRESENTED TO ASSEMBLY DISTRICT ALTERATIONS Pr««3 Association DUNEDIN. Today. The Presbyterian Assembly met again yesterday. The Theological Hall report was presented. Its main, recommendation was that the Rev. John Collie, M.A., of Queenstown, be nominated by the assembly to the synod of Otago and Southland for appointment to the chair of New Testament Studies in Theological Hall. The assembly approved the recommendation. It was resolved to approve changes in the entrance scholarship examination to the hall, and the syllabus of studies prescribed. The Rev. E. J. Tipler moved, and the Rev. G. H. Jupp seconded, and it was agreed “to sanction the scholarship proposals for the session of 1930, and empower the 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. H. Mackenzie moved, and the Rev. J. Paterson seconded, and it was agreed, “that the district of Taupo be 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 the line of the Wanganui River.” The Rev. J. H. Mackenzie moved, and the Rev. W. H. Howes seconded, and it was agreed, “that the Rev. J. G. Laughton be transferred to the Waikato Presbytery.” The following motion was carried unanimously: ‘That the assembly draw attention to the serious reports in the correspondence of our missionaries of the prevalence of the sale of alcoholic liquor to the natives in the New Hebrides, contrary to the terms of the constitution of the condominium, and urge the 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 the islands to. enforce the prohibition of the supply of alcoholic liquor to natives.” The Rev. D. D. Scott, 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 connection with the Foreign Mission report, the resignation of the Rev. Oscar Michelsen, for 52 years missionary in the New Hebrides, was accepted, and the retirement of the Rev* J- w . Mansfield on account of age was decided on. a new station is to be opened at Makaru, in the New Hebrides, in pk.ee of the one at Wuro last June. Miss Ann Allen is to join the staff in the Punjab, in India, and Dr Kathleen Pih the Canton Village Mission. An invitation is to be sent to the Church of Christ in China to send a delegate to visit the churches of the Dominion. The Rev. William Mawson, who was appointed temporary loreign mission secretary at the last assembly, was elected to office permanently.