Group Title : Staff

Series Title : Staff Files - Miss AI James

Date(s) : 1910 to 1952

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Miss Annie I James joined the Canton Villages Mission in 1912.  She became involved in missionary and children's care which, after training, became her special field of service, about 1922 she took over the Kaai Hau Village Cottage Hospital.  She maintained the hospital during the 2nd World War, managing to avoid capture by the occupying Japanese Forces.  She was awarded the MBE for her services.  After 2.5 months of imprisonment by the Chinese Communists in 1951 on unfounded charges, she left Communist China, from 1952 to 1956 she worked for the Hong Kong Mission (refer seperate file), assisting the Fanling Children's Home and with Chinese Refugees.  She finally returned to Dunedin, New Zealand.

Included in this file is : Foreign Mission Application and medical reports; copies of personal and official correspondence; essay "A Mountain Holiday" (1916); essay "Work among Country Women" (1917); account of visits to Kaai Hau by Rev. EG Jansen (1938); correspondence re Japanese Occupation of South China; correspondence re conferring of OBE (1942); "St Andrew's Church News", Dunedin (Dec 1943; June 1951; Oct 1952).
 

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