SPECIAL ARTICLE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20198, 28 March 1931, Page 13

SPECIAL ARTICLE.

SHgHOP HADFIELD f aifSSIONARY AND STATESMAN. u.. ** tTTint r°st the fuss.) !|l •'' [By R. G. C. MCNAB.] I months of mission in improved health nous mental and e had some relief , like many other I begun to suffer >les arising from cure the food to med. At the home iefly on rice and ng, us he was for ie, he was obliged ris provided. This luraged him to be gth, to take long :k, arduous canocvoyages across his South Island exertions proved and in December, Ed to Wellington, months recovering that this exacting us Escape. it once resumed a arch, 1842, Goverboard the GovernIfield in an open lorthwards across ling gale. An atimpossible in the,, rove on with Had- > native crew havdown in despair, re re swept across , and made an ailing among the Ten months later drowned in atfellow missionary, sn carried out to cross-the flooded ifield reached his not, against wind Selwyn had paid anae and reported the work being d guided Sglwyn and a<£ompanied i what the latter ing and delightful up the Manawatu orge and out into ond. The journey r only ouee was it make a portage. . with the grandeur te country through' i well as with the ceired whenever a Maasacze. i, there landed at canoes a band of it with sea'- spray n of mind. Their iparaha and Te ome from what is Wairaa Masqaore. g reprisals, Ihoped t OtaJci and "**- % a 'raid on Wei- ; hweep the Euro(Clarke, then Subaes, declared that lington more than o hear arms, and sist them.) -Te natic, had dfield feared the Ahu, a native tat the hell for 3ng. "This broug&t 9 Rangitaki, later iiigi, a Ngatiawa lfiuence and, told vent to his own the Ngatitoa" and his task would be s,* S. 8. Tiffejn, de[field had followed hat Te Rangitaki he Ngatiawa. was , among the hours the decision? ifield stood in " the rite throng, no> atcome Jmight he*, li, setontfor Welsovered, the fifty-r. insh-track, in -ftyo ,; While ha - yr&» isere made by Te ! the vigilance and ; talsi. He was ahla ] s of the recaliuj.tr'] Home and later ! jb to Waikapae tp ! Hind Te Bangihae-1 f the massacre, it' intermediary w>n to ceaee for ars. Physical exit* strain Inwdent t stress and danified him f and atollapsed, suffering ie central nervoiui ■led into Welling:gin 4ve years of At this fly. lQ<?k back on liwionaryacbieveintervention tn $ on a» jsatraordover the pakeha^ him. Thei station its mere extent. >efore he went to From all accounts S> natives i» the iood' and larg® along the coast -there are about 0 ahont MO the neighbourhood tfithiri a range ot , own labours had hU young Maon. sen. successful ***■ spreading civil*?®" : of these pnpUs mission was nftt the Wesleyan misis' teachers in an■itory. Sell*yn> ® n it, Ad nothing tfr t, wiCh. hW' nsual he presei^ IdMawii ?iadW 1 on the Bft^c^nov Lern tolerxnpo and au»»' matters pt

rivalry hi .the mission field very differ* ently. " .* , J " ■ > , f' A " Helpen. claimed no ojredit for ; his sgqcessj 'indeed,, he,often said ,that no pxomißo or bope, of weeesa ana that'it was not within man's powsr to estimate his vorhf. But he , aid give gre&t pral»«? ta the helpi and friendship, tii fitor Maoris. The first was Wiremu thip at Waikanae. Tnisl man /was a devoted convert, a faithful friend, and a r loyal,allythe English. His and Pfptection made- Had-, work at waikanae easier, and his lniluejf?e Qver hie trihe gave the missionJ ayy a rtqat supporting force? Few men have w a- »tatmeh fw»d «s «» few- Native? havQ so-well of the European - arid been so ,* ungratefully treated by the European 'as lS4|igi. . <' Te B»9E»?»ha|s' kaow4 as-Taihi-men- who; sijnynojied to tb6 •Wath/ was -an .-energetic rtad enthusiastic teaeher.. His sincerity a»d fervour , was obscured by his p*oneness tq,nus»! take the form tot Jhe and by the tmfoftnnate; reputation he acquired among his countrymen/of wishing, to discard everything Maori w worthless. Hia cousin and companion on the jour-ney-to Paihia, WWwhi,. often caUed Honare Matene, was a more solid character, if not so prominent in missionary work, and he became later imbued with* a passion for, the political economic independence of the, Maori race, l in times of however, when the demanded wlJ, he asserted himself- When his' Bervwes were most needed, parly in the 'sixties,' he" showed his loyalty by hetmne; w keep'his tribesmen aloof from the HauHau^mQv^mont. A Oreat Maori Bvw^The teacher whpm Hadfield Joyed and. who became his right-hand man for nearly thirty- years, was Te AbuHe w/is of the Ngatilsura, a of the Nentiawa, and one .of the little grow that had worked to scon M.a missionary, at Waiipaftee./ 0e made Smedf HgdfieM'.s personal attendant - in 1889. taught him Mabri. and became his Sctev. Without, reward S without stwt.of hi\V°* evs } T }£ ioßowed - Hadfield - everywhere, from Queen Charlotte. Sound to the U PP® reaches of- the Manawatu, As soon. »'S Hadfield • was satisfied thflt his own knowledge of Maori ■ enabled him o Sin sViritaaTmatters dearly. T| ahii wns baptised, He became tne time returned ifi the * nowfcr . B ' J? 1 ?.! WaranaW H «>e bv. SBf"'tSSSS^ ness. »Tld f •«,«,' nf his raboin HnuHau- { for. Ju® / ■ ,

Mr Lewis Mumford concludes a literary" reNfiew of the years .192.0-1930, M The Mood v-of a Decade, " /with the following paragraphs: — The decade vu, in sum, a period of uncertainty, almost tortured ; uncertainty. Strong,'isolated works, .which had . uoither past norfuture, neither rJwpact nor des- ' tiny; like "The Unoraouavßoora,',' by Mr K/ B,; Oummines, appeared, Mr Waldo Frank's "Qity; Block"- was - another such hook. 1 The world Itself was unmoorAd, and the best -works of literature were curiously stationary, anchored on some deep bottom, go that they mi#»t ride out the gale. Over every,, effort a# fresh' dxpression- presided the vast and phantasmjc experiment of dream. » nightmare,- a and a denial of classicism, a work Of humpur too wrJr for laughter and of satiric commentary as deadly for the spectator .as for text did not mark » now,.. daw«-~fa> from it. It camp, as Garg&ntua and Etn Ottlxote came, at. the collapse of a certain 1 homogenepps. system of Idess and 'a certain common way of l«e to mark its diaper*?) and. meaninfclassness in one last r disintegrative outburst of laughter. From that debris a hundred , n*w experiments might come. "Ulysses,", like Gargantua, is the writer's handbook and home companion, for out- of all its rhetorical devices and ideological extravagances a young literature ' night find fresh points of departure, the ancient, dilapidated tempi/ proves stones for th* new cathedral. If no young-wnter I could dulte escape tl>6 rhetorical effects of ' "Ulysses," alma't every deliberate effort to utiliso it was a failure, if only because one ' could not reach Joyce's position until on? had come actually to .the end of otae s rope. That was jno problem for a beginner, particularly an American beginner. How was - the world of values to >be, rebornj®°W were the .spiritually blind months and empty bellies to be filled again 1 How yas Wasteland to be depopulated and restored? With. these questions we face the present. The._ Japanese critic Neininoko is autiof of an article on contemporary Japanese novelists which is reproduced in' translation, in ' the Parijs weekly "Monde." The article is amusing both for .its information" concerning the authors discussed and as a ,piquant sample of the procedure of a Japanese critic. We learn that Bhusi Tokuda, author of "The Course of the Clouds," wrote this novel when he was, suffering with his stomach, and that "he latpr married the daughter of his hoarding'bouse keeper.!' Toson Shimazaki, author of "Distributions" is the greatest of' contemporary p?et» 'and "has the habit of poking his hands for hours, to bring back," as he says, "a vision of what .he has done.'in the past." Kakucho Masaoinc, who' wrote "For What Purpose 1"' and "The of DScadeice," is qualified as "a penetrating literary critic", whoj however, "rarely praises tfce ' w,ork qf other writers/-' Kan Kilmschi, the most popular of contemporary ' is knofti* "especially jfor his "Journal of a /Writer 'Without a JP?an»o"f Jun 5 Mo TaaizaW,, atttho? .of "ShUhei," .is Specially interested in the abnormal. IJarno Sato; author of,"Fragile &oaeß," is a stylist.- Maeatf Kume, novelist andtdrajnatist, is fac&us for Jul?" play* and "The Mama Palter Factories.* j