WHO IS GINA?
ADDRESS AT METHODIST CHURCH. When Robert Louis Stevenson went to Samoa be wats prejudiced, against missions, and missionaries. Ho became their warm supporter as the result of ids island i.esidunce and. advised critics to “come and see’’. Oinn. does not hail from Samoa, but from the Solomon Islands- His people were head-hunters and cumnibals. Gma i s » bov of seventeen and i s studying for the ministry at Paerata College Auckland. A year ago ho understood English but could not spoa-k it. To-dav ho a-ctd.resses largo audiences in good and poetical English, sings -in his native language, and plays the cornet and other instruments. He i H a keen sport, excelling at. tennis, cricket and swimming. He is accompanying the Rev. WA. Sinclair who gives a travel talk on “Thu -Sunny Isles” with a hundred pictures at Stratford Methodist. Ciiuich to-morrow at 7..‘10 p.m. Very largo and appreciative ipidiences have greeted them in other centres. No charge is mad© and tip, offering: isi always a liberal on© for the Methodist Solomon Islands work.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 60, 22 May 1928, Page 6
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