MISSIONARY MARKET

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24902, 15 June 1946, Page 2

MISSIONARY MARKET

PROCEEDS FOR MELANESIA AND NORTH CHINA Nearly £6OO was raised at the annual missionary market held yesterday in aid of the North China and Melanesian missions. The market was organised by the committees of *the Friends of Melanesia and of the North China Mission. "We don’t know what exactly may be the opportunity of missions in the future, and where doors may be closed; but we are certainly looking for where they may be opened,” said his Grace Archbishop West-Watson, who declared the market open. The governments of the lands where missions were at work would be organising medical, educational, and cultural services, and the mission services must be of the highest possible order so that the governments would feel that it was worth their while to work in with the missions, said Archbishop WestWatson. The Rev. C. W. Maclavertv, chairman of the North China Mission committee. spoke of the advance of mission work in North China. Nurses from New Zealand would have returned to their posts in this area bv the end of the year, he said. It would not be possible for them to go before then, as the country hospitals had been looted and practically destroyed, and all medical stores and equipment had disappeared, These would’have to be restored before the work could be resumed. Mr Maclaverty said that he had recently received a request from Peking for a teacher from New Zealand to teach English and mathematics in the North China Missionary High School in Peking. The. Rev. Trevor Williams, who recently returned from service as a chaplain in the Pacific.- spoke of the missionary, educational, and medical work which he had seen accomplished by the Melanesian Mission. This work was appreciated by every New Zealander who had seen it. Mr Williams said.

Stallholders were as follows:—Cathedral, delicatessen: Cashmere Hills, flowers and sweets: Merivale, cakes: Phillipstown, variety; Shirley, varietv: New Brighton, white elephant: St. Luke’s, delicatessen: Avonside. produce; Sydenham, aprons and handkerchiefs: St. Peter’s. nroduCe; Fendalton, cooked food: St. Michael’s, kitchen ware; St. Matthew’s, afternoon tea: Prebbteton, produce: St. Chad’s, variety: Kaianoi, nroduce; Associates of Melanesia, books, handworje, and native goods.