VETERAN MISSIONARY FROM CHINA
VISIT TO WELLINGTON. Wellington is shortly to be honoured by a visit from a veteran missionary from China —Mr D. E. Hoste, who has beeu the general director of the China Inland Mission for the last 25 years. This mission comprises 1130 foreign missionaries, and between 2000 and 3000 native helpers, many of them labouring among their own people without salary. Mr Hoste is the second son of the late Major-General Hoste, of Brighton. Ho served four years as an officer in the Royal Artillery, and resigned his commission in April, 1884. He left England in 1885, with six other young men. and has now served forty years in the China Inland Mission. Mr Hoste, accompanied by Mr H. 8. Conway, of the China Inland Mission, is expected to arrive in Wellington on September 24th, and is due to leave again on September 28th. Mr Conway Teaves again on the 25th inst. Captain H. SL Blackburne, of 2, Oriental terrace,'is local hon. secretary and treasurer for the mission in Wellington.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12247, 19 September 1925, Page 7
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174VETERAN MISSIONARY FROM CHINA New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12247, 19 September 1925, Page 7
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