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MORMON MISSIONARIES AMERICAN CONSCRIPTION LAW (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND. Oct 16. All the elders of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (Mormons), totalling 34, have been ordered by cablegram to return to Salt Lake City, America, by the Mariposa, leaving on Monday. They are all of military age, and are subject to the American conscription law. „ . . The president (Mr Matthew Cowley) will be the only one left in New Zealand. He said the evacuation was a matter of church policy. Within tv/o months’ of the outbreak of war 600 elders were evacuated from Europe. This will be the first time for 50 years that the church in New Zealand has been left without a missionary. The church, however, is well established in the Dominion, and will be organised under local supervision.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24431, 17 October 1940, Page 2
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