ZENANA MISSION

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 81, 6 April 1926, Page 9

ZENANA MISSION

GENERAL SECRETARY'S TOUR _ | VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND. J ——■* . , . (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, Oth February. Dr. T. Carter and Mrs. Carter are leaving London by tho Oronsay on 20th February, and are due to arrive in Melbourne on 29th March. Dr. Carter is secretary of tho Zenana Bible ana Medical Mission, and is going out to visit the auxiliaries of the society in Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania.

Thirty yearj ago the Australian Auxiliary was started, and since then very material help has been received. Some seven years ago New Zealand ceased to act through Australia, and formed a separate auxiliary, and now transmits money direct to London. Tho work in India has grown very rapidly, and a number of eminent people are now interested in the mission. It is an interdenominational society . which works freely with all evangelical societies in India. Its operations, confined entirely to India, are directed solely towards helping women and children. It was founded in 1852 by Lady Kinnaird, mother of the late Lord Kmnaird, and the Kinnaird family have been very closely associated with it during all the years. The late Lord Kinnaird was tho treasurer of the society and the present Lady Kinnaird is the president. Lord Meston is the present treasurer, and Sir John Gumming, X.C.5.1., C.1.E., 33 the honorary financial secretary. The revenue of tho society is about £52,000 a year.

So far as the children are concerned, tho society devotes a groat deal of attention to education, and has many village schools. In Bombay the Quoen Mary High School, and the Lady Kinnaird School in Lahore, stand in the front place in Indian Christian education. The society also began the Lord Kinnaird Christian College in Lahore, and this is now run as a co-opera-tive college.

A great work has been done in the rescue of deserted and orphaned children, and there are important homes in the Bombay Presidency and the United Provinces. New Zealand has undertaken to be responsible for a station in the United Provinces at Jaunpur. The society was the first to establish women's hospitals in India. These are purdah, the beds all being curtained off, and are always crowded. There are hospitals at Lucknow, Patna, Nasik, and Jaunpuv.

Dr. Carter has been doputed by the Homo Committeo to-visit .all tho auxiliaries and to convoy greetings to them, and take counsel with them as to the best means of extending tho work. This is his iirst visit to Australia and New Zealand, though he has travelled cxterisively in Europe, America, India, and Northern Africa.- Ho is a minister of the Presbyterian Church of England, iind was formcrlv minister in Birmingham and in West Croydon. He was released for work in t!io Zenana Bible and Medicnl Mission some sixteen years ago. During tho war he was honorary Presbyterian chaplain to the King George Military Hospital, London, and hold the position until 1919. During this time ho came into contact with a largo number of Australian and Now Zealand soldiers.

AUTHOR OF BOYS' BOOKS. To boys throughout the Empire Dr. Carter is really well known as a story writer for the "Boys' Own Paper." But lie writes under the name of J. Clavordon Wood. Souio of his boys' books are "Sinclair of the Scouts," "The Stolen Grand Lama," "Whon Nicholson Kept the Border," "Under the Sorpent's Pang," and "Jeffrey of the White Wolf Trail." His bestknown work, and one which has run into sixteen editions, is "Stories from Shakespeare." Others are "The Story of Shakespearian English Kings,'' "Shakespeare and the Bible," and "Shakespeare, Partisan and Recusant." When in Now Zealand Dr. Carter will be lecturing with the lantern on India and Scotland, and he will be preaching probably every Sunday.