Chaplain Reports "Happy and Constructive Year"
"It has been a happy and con. structive year at the Mission and the members of the Committee would be well satisfied with their expenditure unpen the new recreation room just over a year ago if they could know how much the men have appre the added comfort of the building."
In these pleasant words the Chaplain to the Missions to Scamen in Shanghai sums up the activities of the past year ended December" 31, 1994, which, with the accounts. and list of subscribers' names, will be presented at the annual meeting to be held in the Seamen's Institute Fewer Ships but Work Not Leas In their report, the Committee recall that in their last report, refer-fence had been made to the fact that the tonnage entering the port had been abnormally low and the number Jot visiting seamen proportionately smaller. This was the same last year for, against a total 661 large ocean going steamers with 'a total: tonnaj of 3,217,609 visiting the port in 1033, there were 850" similar ships and tonnage of 2,815,247 during 1994 showing a decrease of half a million tons. "The number of seamen has decreased in proportion "says. their report adding that" in spite of this fact, the totals for the year's work are' by no means discouraging. The Chaplain's work does not decrease with the tonnage of ships visiting the port. The same distances must be covered when two ships are to be visited or three—the same laimeh trips and the same programme Three hundred and eighteen cases of crime were reported to the Shang-hal Municipal Police during the week Jended on Saturday, showing an in-Jerease of 58 cases over the total for the previous week.
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