MISSIONARY HONOURED

Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1931, Page 14

MISSIONARY HONOURED

TWENTY-ONE YEARS’ WORK. It is not every man who lives to admire his own monument. The Rev. J. Noble McKenzie, a Presbyterian missionary, who arrived in Sydney lately on furlough from Korea, has that distinction. For 21 years Mr. McKenzie has been In charge of a hospital in Korea, where 500 native lepers are patients. In recognition of his work, the lepers and their friends have erected a granite column in the public ntrect ns a memorial to him. “I feel like fingering my pulse when I pass It; there is tho suggestion of tomb stones about It,” Mr. McKenzie con fesses. At his coronation tho Emperor of Japan signified his njipreciation of Mr. McKenzie’s work by conferring the Blue Ribbon medal and presenting him with a silver cup; and last year t'” 1 Dowager Empress asked him to visit at her palace in Tokio, when she bestowed on him a certificate of merit and a silver vase.