FORTHCOMING LECTURE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 14, 6 October 1944, Page 5

FORTHCOMING LECTURE

MISSIONARY FROM CHINA

MISS HALL'S VISIT A lccture which should be of especial interest to the public is to be given at the Presbyterian Edgecumbe f on the night of Wednesday October 11 _\vhen Miss Hall who has recently returned from China where she. was engaged on missionary work will address all those interested. Miss Hall went to China in 1923 under the. N.Z. Anglican Board of Missions. After some time at a language school at Peking she was a short time at Fa Fung on the Mongol later settling down to country hospital and village welfare work in the Hopei Province- * south west of Peking. Her knowledge of the country enabled her to give assistance, to the guerillas im the educational and medical field; especially as at that time Britain was not at war with Japan, and this enabled her to go into some of, the occupied cities and bring out medical supplies and personnel. however the Japanese put a stop to this so she went, down to Hongkong and joined the. Chinese Red Cross where she, found Bishop R. O. Hall giving great assistance, to the Chinese' Defence League and. the Chinese Industrial Co-opera-* tives. Later Miss Hall was sent tothe north-west with Red Cross units doing famine relief work. Eventually she had to leave owing to ill-* health and she arrived in New Zealand three, years ago. Miss. Hall hopes to address the Women's Division of the Farmers* Union at Te Telto on October 10 if time allows.