HOME AGAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 97, 27 April 1938, Page 15

HOME AGAIN.

ADJUTANT MORTIMER.

MISSIONARY IN RHODESIA.

STUDYING MEDICINE.

An r>l<] Auckland and Mount Albert Grnnim:'r School boy, Adjutant K. C. Mortim. r, 8.A., of th« Salvation Army, arrived home during the week-end from London, where he is attending the medical college of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The ad infant left New Zealand in ]9:U for Southern Rhodesia, and spent five years there as headmaster of a native hoys' college, wliere 150 hovs were resident. lie found the natives very intelligent. While in Rhodesia Mr Mortimer was a student of the Univer-

gity of South Africa and took his B.A. degree with first-class honours. He was also awarded the medal for the outstanding student of the year. Afterwards the ex-New Zealander was transferred to London headquarters and became a medical student. After completing_ the course he is going back to Rhodesia to commence a hospital and native training college for native doctors and nurses. Rhodesia is very prosperous, said the adjutant, with a small European community and large native population. Once outside the towns one is very much in the wilds. Adjutant jrfortimer once made a 700mile trek through the Zambesi Valley, going from village to village studying the native and his conditions. While on this trek he did much amateur dentistry and considers that there is a great field for dentists among the natives of that colony. "The salvation of the natives," said the visitor, "lies in education for the younger" folk and medicine for the older ones. These should be the two great missionary methods."

Adjutant Mortimer was delighted to meet in London Vivian and Weir, the New Zealand cricketerg with whom he was at Mount Albert Grammar.

He will be staying in New Zealand with his parents until he returns for the next medical term, beginning in October.