MISSIONARIES AROUSED.
REPLY TO A CHARGE. THEY DO NOT RESENT LAY CONTROL. aX TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTMOETMclbourno, November 28.
Allegations mado against Presbyterian missionaries in the Now Hebrides by Sir E. V. im Thurn, High Commissioner of the Westorn Pacific —to tho general effect that tho missionaries resent lay_ govornincnt, and areapparently anxious to control the Islands themselves —have been answered in a lengthy letter which tho Foreign Missions Committee ( of tho Church has requested ] Mr. Dcakin (Federal Prime Minister) to for- ( ward to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.' , ( Tho committee assorts that tho missionaries , have tried to strengthen tho bonds between | Australia and tho Now Hebrides, and urges i tho Secretary for the Colonies to thoroughly | investigate the High Commissioner's charges. ■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 56, 29 November 1907, Page 5
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122MISSIONARIES AROUSED. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 56, 29 November 1907, Page 5
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