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35 6 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.to proceed with the development of the press. Thework issupervised by a committee, Rev. James Neavebeing treasurer. The buildings and initial plant havingbeen furnished by the Canadian Methodist Church,the work is now self-supporting-, in that allrunningexpenses are met and new stock and machinery arepurchased.There are now over sixty workmen, and the workdone comprehends all sorts of printing, including theWest China Missionary News, in English also a Chinese;monthly magazine, tracts, books, and booklets, schoolrules and prospectuses in the same language ;primers,catechism, hymn books and various tracts in Hwa Miao ;and booklets, tractates, and tracts, and presently acatechism and hymn book in Tibetan.The total output for 1909 was : Booksand tracts,2,400,267; pages, 19,785,344.Output from date of organisation up to and including1908: Copies, 15,625,000; pages, 62,500,000.NORTH CHINA UNION COLLEGE PRESS,TUNGCHOW.The American Board Mission Press was re-establishedafter the destruction in 1900 as the North China UnionCollege Press at Tungchow, Chihli, and work wasbegun in December, 1905, with a member of the collegefaculty, Rev. H. S. Gait, as superintendent. Theequipment then cost about $1,500.00 gold. In January,1908, Mr. Wm. H. Carl Ebeling was called by themission to take charge of the press and teach in thecollege. During that year the equipment was increased,bringing the total up to about $3,400.00 gold. Theregular employees at present number only four, butthe average would be about six, not including thestudent help employed. The work done is general bookand job printing (tracts, medical and educational books,reports in English and Chinese, hymn books, etc.),including native (which is mostly by outside contract)