KEEN TO SEE MAORIS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 147, 18 March 1937, Page 10

KEEN TO SEE MAORIS

Visit of American Priest “I am eager to see your Maori people, as it is unusual to find a native r,ace to-day that is not. decadent,” said the Rev. Father G. F. Murphy, of the Church of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Philadelphia, who was a passenger in the Wanganella, which arrived at Wellington from Sydney yesterday. He attended the International Eucharistic Congress at Manila from February 2 to 7, ami is on his way back to the United States. Father Murphy said lie haul beard a great deal about the Maoris. and wished to study the race at first band during the short time at his disposal. Whim America entered the Great War Im saw service as a lieutenantcojouel in the United States Marines. Father Murphy referred in passing to the activities during the last three or four years of America’s well-known “radio priest,” Father Coughlin. The “radio priest,” said Father Murphy, had done an enormous service by educating the American public in national affairs. He had wakened their interest in the processes of Government and political economy in relation to modern problems. In that respect he had done much good. Latterly, however, he had lost a certain amount of popularity through ills attacks on the policy enunciated by President Roosevelt.