N.Z. MISSIONARIES RETURN
SERVICE IN CONGO AND KASHMIR
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, September 11. Two missionaries, one from the Belgian Congo and the other from Kashmir, returned to Auckland to-day by air from Sydney on long furlough. The Rev. A. V. Matthews, aged 32, has been two years on a Baptist mission station on the Congo river. He is with the 45,000-strong Topoke tribe, who “file their teeth, cut their faces, and are pretty backward." They were friendly, he said, but trying to christianise them was hard work. Miss Nina Drew, also of Auckland, but formerly of Dunedin, has been six years in Kashmir with an interdenominational mission. She is a nurse and also had charge of schooling. Her mission was evacuated during the Kashmir fighting in 1947, and she rode a pony for seven days to Srinagar, the capital. Both missionaries hope to return to their fields.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26524, 12 September 1951, Page 5
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