MORMONISM AMONGST THE MAORIS.
SAID TO BE - SPREADING !
,DE. POMAIiE'S- OPINION
_Amatter .;or general".comment;. invHawlVq our. travelling, correspondent)' is the tf rea r ??- M?™ioni?nr--.(iiii-oßg. the '-Nat/vw' of the district'. A,' Miifcri; wedding the 'other div near, Danpevirire fras ' solomnised l,y. a .Mormon, clder^n- the/presence of averv laree oodcomm.o ■ Natives,.anil it is:now"£3 .the . Mormon Church,, chtiroly- "off its 01VT1 bat," intends :to , build a' ; col!e£ e near Ha" tmga .fcr .the education- of .contorts 'from the % on ..race-. This vounf! elder, referred to above,-is at present'teaching :in onoof the Native schools in tho.district, and- the writer was informed by a Hawko's Bay Nativo that Mormonism undoubtedly. had a goodi'hold on the Alaori nund. . .. . . ' Dr. Pomare, . who . sees", i. great deal' of : life (?w **?"?•V Sai 4', i'W ; there was no ,th(!..Mormon .religion was spreading :.t«?' Ntttivcs,.. The: ■ main. reS; "o ins mind,.-.was tmit.the'Mormon elders identified ■SiWi u i , 'i^ ,Maori life/ There ,vas ?v? d v Ut A t that », "F living'amongst and nursing tho Natives, when .they were sick, the Mormon el^s,-maUo;p^fcss'. : wth -their-, religion, i, r ' iuso stated. - that He thought ;tpp-'.xvattyo: clergyman \ was. 'insufficiently paid, xus income^Y»;asiroin «£GO to «£Bo.'per annum, ,J-ms : w;as-an entirely inadequate'sum.as.,a liv. mg wage,.let. alouo w»';a standard of comfort, and the result';was' that-the Maori minister **V a Idt' more' time' planting potatoes than attending' to his proper, work.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 609, 11 September 1909, Page 14
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