POSSIBLY IN DANGER ZONE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 303, 5 October 1935, Page 5

POSSIBLY IN DANGER ZONE.

NEW ZEALAND MISSIONARIES.

FORMER ASHBURTON RESIDENT.

HASTINGS, October 4. It is statedjjy Mr, Charles H. Barton, who is visiting his home town, Hastings, on furlough from Abyssinia, where lie and his wife have been members of the Sudan Interior Mission for the last six years, that the following New Zealand missionaries are in Abyssinia, and possibly in the danger zone: Mr and Mrs Alfred Roke (Auckland). Mr and Mrs G. Cliff Mitchell (Auckland, and formerly of the Ashburton Baptist Church). Mrs Glen Cain (Auckland), Miss M. A. McMillan (Dunedin). Miss Freda Horn (Palmerston North). Miss Ethel Templeton (Otago). The following are on furlough:—Mr and Mrs Charles Barton, Mr Eric S. Horn, and Mr and Mrs L. A. Davison, Mr Barton says that the mission’s most northern station is in the direct line of advance on Adowa.

Mr Mitchell is well' known in Ash- ' burton, having been in charge of the Ashburton Baptist Church for 18 months about 1930. He supplied after the removal of the Rev. C. S. Matthews until the Rey. Eric W. Batts arrived. He left New Zealand almost immediately afterwards to undertake missionary work in the interior of Abyssinia, and has been engaged in this work since then. . '

NOW AT ADDIS ABABA.

WELLINGTON DOCTOR’S SON;

WELLINGTON, October 4. *

Advice has been received that Captain Trevor Palmer, 1.M.5., a son of Dr. Arthur Palmer, of Wellington, was recently transferred from India to the British Legation at Addis Ababa, . as medical officer, in charge of the Indian Contigent for the legation.

PROHIBITION ADVOCATED.

EXPORT OF CANADIAN NICKEL.

MONTREAL, October 3

Mr J. S. Wordsworth (leader of tho Canadian Co-operative Commonwealth Party) is urging the Government to prohibit the export of nickel as ah anti-war move.