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home. There was no money to send a missionary over to
care for them; so the work dragged along until March, 1902,
when Dr. West, as presiding elder of the Singapore District,
of which Borneo was made a part, went to Sarawak and or-
ganized the work, appointing a Chinese member of Confer-
ence in charge. But the need of more definite supervision
was felt to be so great that in February, 1903, the Rev. James
M. Hoover, who had been a teacher in the xA.nglo-Chinese school
at Penang, was sent there to take charge of the mission.

FIRST QUARTERLY COXFERE^^CE IN BORNEO
Held at Siong Pho, Sarawak, November 1, 1902
In 1885 the ^Malaysia Mission was only an appointment
under the presiding elder qd" the Burma District of the South
India Conference. On April 18, 1889, the mission became a
separate and independent organization under a
Organic superintendent. In 1893 another step in advance
Development was taken, and Malaysia became a Mission Confer-
ence, with a presiding elder of its o\mi. Then fol-
lowed in order the Penang District, the Philippine Islands
District, and the Perak District. But it was on February
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