CANTON MISSIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 11

CANTON MISSIONS

RESUMPTION OF WORK

RECALLS FROM FURLOUGH.

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day.

The New Zealand Presbyterian Mission in China, controlled from Dunedin, is looking forward to the resumption of its work there under normal conditions. The secretary to the Foreign Mis^ons Committee is advised that the mission council in China. has stated its purpose of sending its members into residence at Kong Cheun, 12 miles inland from Canton, and has asked for the return of the missionaries at present on furlough. It also requests that a doctor, two nurses, and a woman evangelist worker be immediately sent. In response to this call, Miss Ctoodson and Miss Robertson, nurses, have been appointed, and they are to leave for the mission field on Ist October. The other workers needed are not yet available. Miss Frances Ogilvie, 8.A., left Wellington yesterday by the Maheno on her way back to China. The Rev. Frank Wilkinson, M.A., with his wife and family, is to leave New Zealand on Ist October, accompanied by the two nurses. The latest news from private sources is to the effect that the boycott, which occasions considerable difficulty, particularly with regard to domestic arrangements, still continues. No danger is anticipated, however, to the lives of the Canton missionaries. There is increasing evidence of great general goodwill on the part of the people belonging to the mission district. The real hindrance to the work comes from the Bolshevist provincial Government and the labour unions, which, largely control the situation.