INTERESTING VISITOR
A visitor to Gisborne this week-end is Miss Annie Hitch, a young lady who has spent some years in the East and who is shortly returning to Japan. The daughter of pioneer missionaries on the border of Tibet. Miss Hitch was born in North-West China and subsequentlylived with her parents for five years in Japan prior to the war. She is now returning to work amongst the Japanese as a member of the Central Japan Pioneer Mission having just completed a course of study at the Melbourne University. Japan today presents a wide open field for missionary enterprise, following a recent appeal by General MacArthur to the Christian missionary organisations to combat the spread of communism in that land. Miss Hitch will address social meetings in Gisborne on Sunday.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22868, 11 February 1949, Page 4
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