ZENANA MISSION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19748, 26 March 1926, Page 13

ZENANA MISSION.

GENERAL SECRETARY’S TOUR. YJSIT TO NEW ZEALAND. (Feou Cue Own Cobbesi’unpent.) LONDON, February 9. Dr T. Carter and Mrs Carter are leaving London by the Oronsay on February 20, and are due to arrive *n Melbourne on I ' .rch 29. Dr Carter is secretar of the Zenna Bible and Medical Mission, and is going out to visit the auxiliaries of the society in Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania. Thirty years 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 moi.ev direct to London. The work in India ha= grown v rapidly, and a number of eminent people are now interested in the mission. It is an interdenominational soccty which works freely with all evangelical soc.eties in India. Its operations, confined entirely to India, are directed solely towards helping women and children. It was founded in 1852 py Lady Kinnaird, mother cf the late Lord Kinnaird. and the Kinnoird family has been vorv closely associated with it during all (he years. The late Lord Kinnaird was the treasure of the society, and the present Ladv Kinnaird is the president. Lord Meston is the present treasurer, and Sir John Gumming. K.C.5.1., CUE.. is the honorary financial secretary. The revenue of the society is about £52,000 a year. So far as the children are concerned the society devotes a ercat deal of attention to education, and has many village schools. In Pf> bay the_ Queen Mary High School, and i,ie Lady Kinnaird School in "Lahore, stand In the front place in Indian Christian education. The society also began the Lord Kinnaird Christian of deserted and orphaned children, and a co-operative college. A great work has bee done in the rescue of deserted and orphaned children, and there arc important homes in the Bombay Presidency and the United iTovinces. New Zealand has undertaken to be responsible for a sat ion in the United Provinces at Jannnnr. The society was the first to establish world's hospitals in India These are purdah, the beds all hmne curtained efT, and are always crowded. There are hospitals at Lucknow, Patna. Nasik. and Jannnnr.

Or Carter lias been denoted bv the Home Comm’Mee to visit all the auxiliaries and to oonvcv greetings to them, and take counsel with them as to the bos. means of extending the *‘ork, This is nis first visit to Australia and New Zealand, though he has travelled extensively in Eurone. America. India, and Northern Africa. He is a minister 0 f the T’reabvterian Ch” v eh of England. and was formerlv minister in Rirn'innham and m West C v ovdon. He was for work in the Zena"a Rible a'ni Medical Missic some 16 vear= aero. I)’n-in'» the war he was honorar- Presby. terian ch.v>la : n to the King Geni-gp Military Ilosnital. Loudon, and held the peer lion uni 1 1919. During this lime e e.arne into contact with a large number of Australian a'wl New Zealand soldie-s. ALTilOn OF no VS’ ROOKS. To hoys throughout the Empire, Dr Carter is really well-known as a sto v y writer for The Roys’ Own I’aner Rut e writes under (he name of .1 Claverden Wood. Some of his ho vs’ hooks are “Sin-lair o' the Scouts’’ “The Stolen G"-' ’ Llama.” “When Nicholson t'ept the Rorder,” “Pnder the fV.m-ul’s Lay." and “.feffrev of Ibe W’h'le Wolf 'l’ran,” 11i« lied known wo>-k. and one whir!’, has <•■>„ into In editions, is '“'fo!"es from ‘•'kekespea re. ” ("lthei-5 are ‘The St-,TV of S]l 3 k l”- O' 1 '1 fC ~ O Fuelj>l) K'n" c ” “Shakespeare ami (he Rihle.. a-d “Shakecpeare, Pailisan and Re-U=aut.’’ ■When in V"iv Zea'atul Dr Carter 'vill he lecturing with the lantern on India and Scotland, ami lie will be preachig probably uvery Sunday.