THE SOUTH SEAS
Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Blake, who is one of the Sea Lords, gave what he called “a bit of a chat’’ on the peace-time work of the navy at a luncheon arranged by the London missionary Society recently. In a tribute to the missionaries who have worked and are working in the South Sea Islands, Admiral Blake said': “We owe, in this area of the Pacific, everytliino- we have got to missionaries. They had done an enormous amount of good. The South Sea Islands are beautiful, but they are not a white man’s country and they never will be. All that idea which you get in books about their being the place for tired business men to go for life, and all that sort of thing, where there are no rates and taxes, no expenses, just does not work.”
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12314, 6 April 1933, Page 2
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