ABSTRACT
Frank Coaldrake spent most of his time in Australia travelling and visiting parishes all over the country (some 7,000 miles by aeroplane), giving over 300 speeches and talks, not counting radio interviews and conference addresses. Mrs. Coaldrake, who was the first Youth Organiser appointed by the Church of England in Tasmania, spoke on her work as a missionary in Japan and outlined some of the problems confronting her and her husband (the Rev. Frank Coaldrake) as the only foreign members of the staff of the diocese of South Tokio. Work among a people of a highly developed civilisation such as that of Japan, with its age-old social conventions concerning the family and marriage, public behaviour and conduct, made the life of a Christian missionary most difficult, she said. In addition, there were problems of food supplies for people unaccustomed to a rice diet, and a high cost of living.
