LOYALTY OF SOLOMONS
CANTERBURY CLUB ADDRESS
"Japan may destroy our mission stations, churches, schools, workshops arid all our material assets in the Solomons, but she cannot destroy the spiritual values- of our 42 years of missioh.acy • work, whereby .a race of head hunting savages had been : converted .into humane": : and Civilised Christians, said:'she.Rev; ,J:>F. Goldie, of the New :; Zealand Methodist Missions in the Western Solomons, in an address to the Canterbury: Club in. Auckland;.: Mr. Goldie added ythat since, the. Japanese occupation ~of the islands, the natives had maintained an .am-, tude of unswerving loyalty to the British flag. ■-'. _, The president of the club, Mr. Harry Frost, mentioned that in token of the Deans' family appreciation of the club's congratulations on the completion of the first 100 years settlement in Canterbury, Mr..John Deans had presented the club with a volume, "Pioneers of Canterbury, containing the letters of his family from 1840 to 1854. The Rev. E. T. Olds presided over a large attendance and several new members were elected. . . ■ .
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 109, 10 May 1943, Page 5
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