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"THE CHINA CONTINUATION COMMITTEE 387Survey andThe Annual Meeting adopted the followingOccupation resolutions on this subject :1. That a new special committee on Survey and Occupation beappointed at this meeting.2. That the special committee on Survey and Occupation, outline as soon as possible after its appointment a plan for utilizing suchsurvey material," including the general statistics of mission workin China, as has already been collected in the offices of the ChinaContinuation Committee, the China Christian Educational Associationand the China Medical Missionary Association, or can be securedfrom books and available reports keep in close touch with others:interested in such survey work in China; assist, where the Committee sassistance is desired, in co-ordinating such surveys; make availablefor the general survey all material gathered by others and placed bythem at the committee s disposal; and that after making a study ofthis material, the committee draw up a statement for report at thenext annual meeting outlining both the main purpose and the natureand scope of a general missionary survey of China, and the best wayof securing the same.3. That the committee keep in touch with the committee onSurvey and Occupation of the Edinburgh Continuation Committeeand with similar committees on the mission field, especially theCommittee on Survey of the National Missionary Council in India.4. That the Executive Committee make provision in this year sbudget for additional clerical assistance without which the ChinaContinuation Committee staff will not be able to handle the additionalwork involved in the above recommendations.This special committee is engaged in studyin^Problems which can hardly be studiedunder otherEfficiency agencies to advantage. Thereport of the committee as presented to theAnnual Meeting of 1915 was widely circulated in pamphletform, as well as being reproduced in full in last year sCHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK and bids fair to become a classicin its field. The following resolutions were adopted by theAnnual Meeting on the recommendation of this committee:That a special committee on this subject be reappointed andJ .be instructed to continue the lines of study begun during the pastyear.2. That the committee devote special attention to the subject ofthe organization of mission administrative bodies on the field.3. That the Executive Committee be asked to continue theirefforts to find a suitable man for the position of manager of aBusiness Agency and to encourage the organization along wise linesof such an agency (cf. Third Annual Meeting Minute No. 120).