City Mission Hall Chinese School
Date Published
: Missions (Christian), religion (Christianity)
: Adelaide
: Adelaide
: 1882 to 1924
City Mission Hall Chinese School
Adelaide City Mission
This mission school reportedly began in the early 1880 through the efforts of a Miss Sarah Lavis, who was a member of the Flinders-Street Baptist Church, Adelaide.
When it was announced that the Chinese Commissioners would visit Adelaide their countrymen who attend nightschool at the City Mission Hall determined to get them to attend the hall. Accordingly a tea meeting was arranged, at which General Wong Yung Ho and Consul-General U Tsing and their suite were present. The Chinese pupils arranged the tea, and also invited their instructors and the latter's friends. The hall was crowded.
The South Australian Advertiser, Saturday 25 June 1887, p.6.
Adelaide's City Mission building in Light Square, Adelaide city, from 1878, became the facade entrance in 2020 to Spence on Light apartments, with affordable and social housing.
