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122 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.Central China Mission. Ningpo, Shanghai, Hangchow,and Soochow.The most important problem of policy before theMission during the year has been the reorganization ofits educational work. The resources available were notsufficient to supportall the institutions of the Missionadequately, and new conditions of transportation and cooperation among missions seemed to make itunnecessaryto maintain high schools at all the stations. It wasaccordingly decided to consolidate the Boys School atSoochow and Ningpo with the Hangchow ChristianCollege and to pursue the same course with the CowrieHigh School at the South Gate, Shanghai, unless thealumni of the school were prepared to take over itssupport. The Southern Presbyterians contemplatedjoining in the support of the Hangchow College, andit was agreed to unite also the Girls Schools of theMission in Hangchow and to readjust also the GirlsSchools in Shanghai and Niugpo.At Ningpo the corps of native workers has sufferedstill greater decrease one native; pastor having beendeposed from the ministry for carrying on lawsuitsin the name of the church and; another, having beenfound untrustworthy and deceptive, was asked to resign. There is no greater need than the need of strongnative men to care for the ten churches of the Ningpofield.In the I/Dwrie High School at Shanghai practicallyall the education in Chinese letters is to-day supportedby the money from former pupils. Rumors from ourFall Mission meeting reached the alumni and made themuneasy about the future of the school. They feared aremoval and were much dissatisfied. Finally at a conference between a committee appointed by the Missionand a committee from the Old Students Association, thelatter outlined plans looking towards the Associationtaking over still larger financial burdens and planning toraise the scholarship of the school, asking from the