New Zealand Minister moves to help mission trust: CEN 12.11.07 December 11, 2007
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| THE DEFENCE Minister of New Zealand has introduced a private member’s bill in that country’s parliament to grant permanent tax exempt status to the Melanesian Mission Trust.
Chartered in 1862 by Bishop George Selwyn of New Zealand and Bishop John Coleridge Patteson of Melanesia, the trust’s original endowment of a 150 acre farm has grown in value to £80 million. Approximately £2.5 million is generated by the trust each year and provides almost all of the income of the Church of the Province of Melanesia in the Solomon Islands. Read it all in The Church of England Newspaper. |
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