Annual Service at Cathedral:
Duty in Thought Becoming as Service in Action The annual service of the B.W.A. wes held on Sunday morning in the Cathedral at 10,80 o'clock and was; attended by large numbers of B. W. 'A. members and others and by} detachments of officers and bluejackets from off H.B.M, cruisers in port.
speaking of the occasion Dean Symons based his sermon upon St Paul's text, Whose Iam and whom I serve." The B.W.A., he said, had its beginning during the war when British Women in Shanghai put forth concentrated effort in making, supplies and bandages. After the war was finished and the special work no longer necessary, it was felt that such an organization already started could devote itself to community needs. How much the Association had done in various; directions of community life, needed not to be touched upon, as it was well known by everyone' there, bringing St, Paul's text. to bear upon larger fidds as well, Dean Symons stressed the need for a sense of duty in all phases of activity, such a sense providing us with discipline in life, and becoming, when in action, service. Both duty and its attendant virtue, service, presented the highest attributes possible to acquire, the Dean said, and it was for this reason that the army, the similar pr good of their country were known fas services, Likewise, were men in public life serving the interests of their fellow-men, known as public servants.
At the completion of the service, bluejackets attending the service drew up on the Cathedral Compound, fell in, and marched off headed by their band,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.