SOCIAL FOR SEAMEN
“PRACTICAL EXPRESSION OF CHRISTIANITY” TEN NATIONALITIES Seamen of over 10 nationalities were represented at a New Year social in the Seamen’s Mission Hall last evening. . ■ “Boys” from Xiue Island, and from j Ellice Island, Americans, Irish, Scot- ! tish, Germans, English, Finns, Swedes, j Danes and Dutchmen were among the j crowd of 100 present. i The British Seamen’s Society held the social. Speakers for the organising committee described the social as a “practical expression of Christianity.” Members of the crews of the Somerset, the Maui Pomare, the barque Olivebank, the motor vessel Olivebank, and the Golden Harvest attended. It is the society’s aim, each New Year, to hold a special social for visiting sailors to relieve the tedium of life on jshipboard. ' When the society held a service last ! Sunday three languages, English, Polynesian and Swedish, were used. Mr. A. W. Benton, the missioner, was prominent in organising the social. Mr. Harry Johnston gave a New Year j message to the men, and a musical programme was provided. I k
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 552, 3 January 1929, Page 16
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173SOCIAL FOR SEAMEN Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 552, 3 January 1929, Page 16
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