MISSION'S GREAT WORK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21912, 22 September 1934, Page 19

MISSION'S GREAT WORK

AUSTRALIA'S "NEVER-NEVER" REMARKABLE CHANGE At Wyndham, Western Australia, "the second hottest place in the world, with a temperature of 84deg. day and night for the last five years," the once-popular "two-up" school, has been driven out of business. Not because of the heat. But because of financial stringency. Not because Wyndham men have lost their love for the goddess, Chance. It is because, savs the Kev R. H. Campbell, the "school has been driven *out of business by the establishment of a debating society and a phvsical culture club. Mr. Campbell, who was addressing a Svdnev gathering recently, instanced the change at Wyndham as an instance of the work of the Australian Inland Mission. He said that despite the caricatures of cartoonists and novelists, there were men and women in the interior equal to any in the cities. The people of the "Never Never" were not reared in self-indulgent conditions, but thev were first-class heroes. They had to put up with many things unknown to city dwellers. Yet with all its hardships and privations, the inland exercised a fascination for all who had lived The inland had great pastoral and mineral resources, and Nature made a marvellous response to the limited rainfall. Tho climate of Central Australia was claimed to be the finest winter climate in the world. The hospitality of its people was great. For many women and children life was lonely. W'ireless was doing something to mitigate matters, but there was a great scarcity of reading matter. In the area covered by the Inland Mission there were 30,0*00 whites and 50,000 blacks.