MORMONS AND MAORIS.

Mataura Ensign, 29 April 1909, Page 3

MORMONS AND MAORIS.

INSTRUCTION NEAR NAPIER. PEE UNITED I'BESS ASSOCIATION. NAPIER, April 28. Elder George Bowles, of Utah, U.S.A., has arrivod to take over charge of Mormon work at Ngatarawa, where that body has purchased 130 acres of land for the purpose of erecting schools and workshops for instructing the natives iu agriculture and useful trades. Elder Rufus K. Hardy, who has relinquished the control to his successor, leavee by the next boat for Utah and as soon as the plans are approved by j the higher authorities there and appropriations made for the erection of the buildings the work of building the school, dormitories, workshops and j workrooms, together with the purchase of the necessary implements, will be proceeded with immediately. Mr Hardy says the work will be given locally and the institution will bo opened as soon as contractors can get through—probably in 12 months from the start. The mission, in order to test the ground for use in connection with the establishment, planted 00 acres in potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, maizo, hops, corn, water and rock melons, pumpkins. marrows, onions, etc., with most excellent results, not a single failure being reported. A sample of five potatoes taken weighed 9Jlb and tho mission has got a return of 200 tons ol chaff for^tho^seasoii^____