EARLY MISSIONARY WORK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16339, 23 March 1915, Page 7

EARLY MISSIONARY WORK

ANNIVERSARY IN TARANAKL;.S'ItI (Per United Pbess V NEW PLYMOUTH, March 2£lß;S§ Sunday was a day of special service*:"iY« throughout the Methodist Church. laranaki province. The occasion vided by the fact that 75 years ago sionary work in this area, was Methodist minieters. The Rev. Mr' SW- -K s f£ ingtori was then located on the Plain, and the first service was held' Wamgongoro a few months later—January IJ, 1841, to be exact. The Creed and the Rev. J. Waterhouee landed;f?W from the Triton by a whaleboat 'at ; bugar Loaves, jind x with them cam&iMfs'-sy® Ureed. the' circumstantial account of: landing describes her -as being ;'carrjeijSfi aehore by seven Maori women: building near the landing place services were held. ■■;: ■ .■ - £vh*):?gs&. Yesterday's servicee fittingly tho interesting anniversary. At tho service at the Whiteley Memorial tno Rev. A. B. Chappell deUvered a! lntereetmg review of the missionary ments of the pioneer Methodist «iis province He paid .a tribute" u>fi&e*pf Key. Samuel Marsden and his friend Sanittel : #M' v'i 'j ° firsfc Wcele y a n missionary Zealand. Reference was made : fo'~'tne'pS murder by the Maoris of the Rev. Johnß%l Whiteley on Thursday. ' • .. ; i..This week there will be a pilgrimage the original landing place.' . ;,. ' - v >V',g3?M