DEATH OF MISSIONARY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 201, 10 September 1937, Page 12

DEATH OF MISSIONARY

-Press Association.)

New Zealander In China

(By Telegraph-

AUCKLAND, Last Night. News has beon received of the death at Tientsiu, China, on Septeinber 5, of Miss Mary Mowat Gibsoii, a New Zealand missiouary. Tlie message stated that Miss Gibgon had died, suddcnly after au opcration. She was an onlv daughtcr of Eev. Mackcnzie Gibson, who was wcll-knowii as vicar of a nmnber of parishes in the dioeese of Christchurch between the yoars 1886 and 1915, and who served as a chaplain with the New Zealand Expcdilionary Forcq from the latter year until the end o| the Great W ar. Since 1919 Afr. Gibson has been llving at Esher, Surrey. His daughter left Christchurch about 14 years ago to take up teaehiug work in China under the Church Missionary Society, For a long period she was on the staff of a schooi in Peiping and became the first Cominissionor of Gir] Guides for North China. For the past vwo years she had been engaged in evangelistie and general missionary work at Tientsin. Since her departure for China she had mcde only one return visit to Now Zealand. Mr. Noel Gibson, headmnstor of the Dilworth Schooi, Auckland, is a brotlui of kliss Gibson.