MISSIONARY MARKET

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23970, 10 June 1943, Page 2

MISSIONARY MARKET

£450 RAISED YESTERDAY “Five hundred pounds, the objective set for to-day’s market, seems a small sum for the missions in their fight for Christianity,” said Mrs J. Mowbray Tripp, when formally opening the missionary market, held at the Caledonian Hall yesterday, in aid of the Melanesian and North China missions. “We are asked to raise £35,000,000 for the Liberty Loan to prosecute the war and ensure social stability in this life, but only £SOO lor missionary work, which is of enduring value and ensures stability in the life to come.” When peace reigns in the world again, Mrs Tripp continued, there will be much to be done in succouring stricken countries and this, to a great extent, will be done by .doctors, nurses. Red Cross workers, and medical missionaries, who will deserve generous support. She wished the stall-holders the success that their hard work merited. Archbishop West-Watson, who introduced Mrs Tripp, said he hoped the market would be a great success, as, so far, the quota for the missions was not reached, and it was hoped to add to a fund opened last year for the purpose of reconstruction after the war, as the damage to missions in North China and Melanesia amounted to many thousands of pounds. "Support of the missions,” he said, “is a safe investment towards securing a better world.” The Rev. I. L. Richards thanked the stall-holders and their helpers for the good work they had done, the secretary, Miss L. Cameron, for years of devoted service, and Messrs F. King, Thurlow Thompson, and A. C. Bishop for help in arranging the market. It was announced that St. Michael’s parishioners, instead of stocking a stall, had contributed the sum of £ls 8s 6d to the funds of the market. When the market closed, the sum of £450 was in hand, with a few small amounts still to come.

The following were the stalls and stall-holders: —Books, Melanesian Associates, with Miss A. Cameron in charge; Paddy’s Market, St. Chad’s (Mrs W. W. Harley, Miss M. P. delicatessen, St. Luke’s (Mrs I. L. Richards); miscellaneous, Church of the Good Shepherd, Phillipstown (Misses Cradock (2) and Edna Wright); work, St. Saviour’s (Mrs Stewart Smith); art, St. John the Evangelist’s, Woolston (Mrs W. J. Ede and Mrs H. Bell); Paddy’s market, S' Faith’s, New Brighton (MissH. M. Smyth); sweets and flowers, St. Augustine’s, Cashmere (Mrs F. Bowron and Mrs S. V. Massey); delicatessen, Cathedral workers (Mrs A. K. Warren); cakes, St. Mary’s, Merivale, (Mrs A. J. Petrie, Misses Papprill (2), Partridge, and Fleming); kitchen and ■washhouse, St. Paul’s, Papanui (Miss D. Heywood); variety, Holy Trinity, Avonside (Mrs A. Kinvig); delicatessen, Fendalton (Mrs V. Morris); variety, St. Stephen’s, Shirley (Miss V. Morgan); produce, St. Peter’s, Riccarton (Mrs T. E. Chisnall); jams and pickles, St. David’s, Belfast (Mrs C. M. Harris); produce, Miss L. Cameron; books, Church Missionary Society and North China Mission (Misses M. Robinson and M. V. Tayler); toys, Associates of Melanesia (Mrs A. C. Besant); bags and baskets, Melanesian Mission (Miss G. Hockley).