The Rev. F. W. Weaver Takes Up New Post Shanghai welcomes back a former resident, the Rev, F, W. Weaver, to Succeed' the Rev. EH. Harthan chaplain to the Missions to Scamen in the port. Mr. Weaver arrived here fon January 20 on board the Empress of Japan from Vancolver. He was attached to the statistical department of the Chinese Maritime Customs from 1924 to 1927, coming out here from England, where he held a position in the Foreign Office. During, his residence in Shanghai, Mr. Weaver was lay. reader" at Holy" Trinity Cathedral, und was also a worker in the Missions to Seamen, He was in charge of the mission for a year while the chaplain was home on leave, Leaving for Canada in 1927, he all ended the Anglican Theological College, Vancouver, and was ordained 183, "After his ordination, worked "among the Indians in the Indian Reserve. The mission work included medical work, dentistry, and school teaching, and came under the Department of Indian Affairs to the Dominion Government. Missionaries working in the Reserve have a hard existence as their food consists chiefly of sh and tinned food which they fake up with them, and they are frozen in four months in the year, from November to March, Aller working ax a missionary: among the Indians, Mr. Weaver was appointed to the parish of St. Albans, Victoria, holding this position for three years, and his next post was the parish of Cumberland, British Columbia. In "addition, he was Anglican chaplain to the St, Joseph's
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