MONUMENT TO N.Z. PIONEER
SAMUEI- MARSDEN'S WORK PRAISED ANNIVERSARY OK HI Kill LONDON, July 29. Sir James Parr (High Commissioner) and Professor J. R. Elder, of Otago University, editor of j "Marsden's Papers,'' represented New Zealand at the unveiling of a monument to Samuel Marsden on the one hundred and seventieth anniversary of his birth at the picI turesque village of Carsley, near | Leeds. »The monument stands near Marsden's birthplace, on the site of the warehouse where there was stored the first consignment of Australian wool brought over by Marsden to Yorkshire for experimental purposes. Sir James Parr also laid the founj dation stone of a group of six Marsden memorial cottages for aged and ( indigent employees of the wool industry. Sir James paid a tribute to Marsden's life-work in Australia and New Zealand as a missionary and as a practical pioneer. His zeal, faith, and courage were responsible for the rapid conversion of the Maoris, he said. Marsden's name was highly revered in New Zealand. I
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21230, 31 July 1934, Page 11
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