RULING THE NEW HEBRIDES.
FRENCH IDEA OF PARTITION. NOT ACCEPTABLE TO MISSIONS. . * (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this day. When addressing a meeting of Dunedin Presbytery on the activities of the Foreign Missions Committee, the Rev. W. Mawson, of Auckland, referred to the New Hel/ides. He said that the Condiminiuni might be a poor thing, but it might be worse. The interests, of the French there were so predominant that any change was out of the question. The French idea of partition was that the British should take the southern part of the islands and the French, the north, which contained all the fertile land. That, of course, was not acceptable to the missionaries.
The committee proposed to send specific instances of maltreatment to the Labour Office at Geneva, and also to the International Society for the Protection of Native Races. They would perhaps deal with the question more effectively through publicity than the committee could through political channels. The committee was pleased to know that the British Government had no intention of giving up its interests in the New Hebrides.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 233, 2 October 1929, Page 3
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