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WADA, Hikɔjirɔ (Tokyo), M.P.; ex- Vice-Minister of Agric. and Comm.; b. June, 1859, in Hiroshima-ken. Was Director of Agric. Bureau, Agric. and Comm. Dept., 1897-1903; subsequently appointed Vice-Minis-

ter; has sat in Lower House

without-break since 1892. Address:

Tokyo, Japan.

WAINRIGHT, Prof. Samuel Hayman (KOBE), M.D., D.D.: Prof. of Philosophy in Kwansei Gakuin,

Kobe, and Principal of Academic Dept. of that institution; b. April 15, 1863, at Columbus, Ill., 8. of Rev. D. T. Wainright; m. 1886, Margaret Miller, d. of Rev. J. S.

Todd. Educ.': Missouri Med. Coll.; Central Coll. Mo. Appointed Mis- s'onary, M.E. Ch. South, to Japan, 1888; elected Pres., Japan Annual Conf., M. E. Ch. South, 1903, and 1905; elected delegate to Gen. Conf. în America, 189, 1902 and 1905;

temporary pastor of Union Church, Hongkong, in 1899; pastor of Union

Church, Kobe, 1990; has been

Principal of Academic Dept. of Kwansei Gakuin for last 16

years. Publications: Editor and translator into Japanese of Wesley's Sermons; J. W. Lee's "Making of

a Man," and "Methodist Dis-

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cipline"; numerous contributions to "Chinese Recorder," "Japan Evangelist," "Methodist Quarterly Review," New York "Daily Herald" on foreign missions and religious and educational problems in Japan.

Address: Kobe, Japan. ·

WAKEMAN, George Herbert (HONG-

KONG), Land Officer and Official Receiver in Bankruptcy; b. June 15, 1866. Appointed Asst. Land Officer,

June 29, 1900; J.P., Dec. 28, 1900; acting Land Officer and Official Receiver in Bankruptcy, Jan. 28, 1905; Land Officer and Official

Receiver in Bankruptcy, since Aug.

* 26, 1905; Hon. Sec., Volunteer

Reserve Assn. Club: Hongkong.

Address: Hongkong.

WALKE, Rev. Roger Atkinson

(TOKYO), M.A.; Clergyman; b. March 19, 1877. Educ.: Episcopal High Sch., Virginia, 1893-97; Univer- sity of Virginia, 1898-1902 (M.A.,

1902). Graduated, Va. Theol.

Seminary, 1994; ordained Priest, 1905. Address: 58, Tsukiji, Tokyo,

Japan.

WALKER, Rev. Joseph Elkanah (SHAOWU), D.D.; Clergyman, Mis- sionary, A.B.C.F.M.; b. Feb. 10, 1844, at Walkers' Frairie, Washing-

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