AFRICAN MISSIONS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 297, 14 September 1927, Page 10

AFRICAN MISSIONS

WORK IN NORTHERN RHODESIA Dominion Special Service. Auckland, September 13. Dr. H. E. Wareham, a medical missioner from Northern Rhodesia, arrived at Auckland by the Mararna after a six months’ visit to Australia. He will be in New Zealand for about six weeks explaining his work and making an appeal on behalf of the London Missionary Society to all congregational churches in the Dominion. He has worked in Africa for 25 years, and has interesting tales to tell of life among the blacks of semi-tropical Africa. “The Bantu, with whom I come most in contact," said Dr. Wareham, “are a clever people, very quick to learn and very imitative. Dr. Aggery, vicepresident of the Acliimota College on the Gold Coast, is a full-blooded African, and has men from the universities of England and America working under him.,” '

Dr. Wareham is in charge of six stations in Northern Rhodesia. Fourteen white missioners are engaged in the work, which mostly concerns medical education in the schools iu the province. There are 13,000 children; five thousand Christians are included, and iu the classes, at which Christianity is taught, there are 20,000. “One of the biggest parts of our work is education,” went on Dr. Wareham. “The Northern Rhodesian Government is helping us a great deal with subsidies and in other ways. They are doing their best, and it is a big help. We are trying to get more men and women to come out and help. Unless the income is raised, however, we will have to give up the work, but, of course, New Zealand and Australia would never allow that to happen.”