GLEANERS' UNION CELEBRATION.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 226, 28 October 1914, Page 4

GLEANERS' UNION CELEBRATION.

The Christchurch branch of the Gleaners' Union, in connection with the New Zealand Church Missionary Association, will celebrate its twenty-second .anniversary to-morrow. At evensong in the Cathedral) Canon T. A. Hamilton will give a short address, and there will be a Gleaners' Union tea at the Y.M.C.A., Cambridge Terrace, followed by the annual public meeting at 7.30, when the chair will be taken by the Dean of. Christchurch. The speakers will be Miss E. Stinson and the Rev. G. S. Bryan-Brown. Miss Stinson has been working in China under the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society (C.E.Z.M.S.) for; the past five years. She belongs to a Lyttelton family, and is a fully qualified nurse, having received her training in the Dunedin Hospital. From there she went to London, where she obtained further training, being for three years a Queen's Nurse. She has been doing dispensary work as a pioneer missionary in the province of Fuhkein in China, and has much of interest to tell of her experiences there during and after the revolution. She hopes to return to China next year, still working as a missionary of the C.E.Z.M.S., but now supported by -the New Zealand Church Missionary Association, and in particular by the Christchurch branch. The Rev. G. S. Bryan-Brown will also tell of medical missionary work in China, as he has a brother and a sister working there as i fully qualified doctors.