LOCAL CHINESE MISSION

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 121, 18 November 1926, Page 19

LOCAL CHINESE MISSION

Last Sunday Mr. Y. F. Leung, who has come from China to take the place of the Key. E. V; P. Lee, began his ministry in the Chinese Mission Church in Frederick street in the presence of a very large congregation of his countrymen, many Baying to stand throughput the service. The Rev F, B. Redgrave, the general secretary of the Board of Missions, on behalf of the Bishop ; of Wellington, instituted Mr. Leung. : Mrß. Sue Shen Hing'and Hessrs. J. D. Kwong and»N. Y. Sui spoke, assuring their new missioner of the Jiearty support of the' Chinese community. Mr. Leung is a graduate of-St. Paul's College in Canton, who received his theological training in the Union Theological Seminary in that city. - He worked for some years in Japan among Chinese university students, and was about to'be ordained when the great earthquake put an end to hia work there. , Last evening there was a social gathering to welcome the new miarioner. The Bishop of Wellington presided, and addresses were also given by the Consul (Mr. Li), Mi. H. Jackson (secretary to the Consulate), Archdeacon Johnson (the first superintendent of the mission), Canon Watson (the present superintendent), the Rev. P. B. Redgrave (secretary and treasurer), the Rev. W. Mawson (in charge of the Auckland mission, Mr. Sue (Baptist missioner), Mr. S. Webber (on behalf, of the teachers),, Mr, Nelson Gee (for the elder scholars), Mr. Wong Poy (on behalf of the business community), and by Mrs. Li for the Chinese women in Wellington. Several speakers eulogised the great work done amongst the women and children, by Mrs. Wong, the widow of a former missioner, Mr. Leung, first in English and then in Cantonese, spoke eloquently of the great ■work done by his predecessor (Mr, Lee), and earnestly asked for the prayers of all friends and attendants of the mission.