SUDAN UNITED MISSION

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1931, Page 10

SUDAN UNITED MISSION

LECTURE BY MR. J. PRIESTLEY.

A lecture on the work of the Sudan United Mission was given at Hawera on AA’ednesday night by the New Zealand secretary, Air. J. Priestley. The Rev. H. Curran presided over a fair attendance.

Air. Priestley gave a comprehensive review of the activities of the mission, which is inter-denominational and international. The work was started about 25 years ago immediately after the reconquest of the Sudan by the late Lord Kitchener. New Zealand and Australia had for some years had charge of the eastern or Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, comprising the provinces below Khartum. Taranaki, the speaker remarked, had a particular interest in the work as one of the pioneer missionaries was Air. D. N. MeDiarmid, an old New Plynvr’th High School boy. The British Government offered the mission every assistance, giving subsidies for the establishment of schools. Apart from its Christian, aspect the work had an Imperial bearing, since it would curtail the expansion of the Aloslem faith. Schools had been founded by the mission and a lot of medical work was being done. Very satisfactory reports had been received from all stations. The lecture was illustrated with interesting lantern slides of native life and customs, particularly depicting the life’ of the Dinka and Nuba tribes. GENERAL ITEMS. “How we became lost in the northwest of Australia,” is the title of an address to be given by Mr. T. H. AlcWilliams, Kingford Smith’s wireless operator, to members of the Mt. Egmont Alpine Club in the winter show ■buildings, Hawera, to-night at 8 o’clock. The public are invited to attend. A most extraordinary example of mixed pollenation by bees has occurred on a Whakamara farm. A housewife secured a cabbage from the garden, but on cutting it found that beneath about three inches of cabbage leaves and completely enclosed thereby was a perfectly formed cauliflower. Gardening experts consulted admit that the freak is entirely new to them. A successful evening resulted at the Auroa Tennis Club opening dance on Wednesday, a large number attending. A Dutch Alonte Carlo was won by Mr. S. Wilks and Airs. A. Dunn and a spot dance by Air. D. Alcrcer and Airs. G. Eliason. Alusic was played by Henderson’s Star Orchestra ano. extras by Aliss T. Arden, Messrs B. Eliason, AV. Coxhead, H. Brooker and J. Hooker. The Al.’sC. w re Alessrs H. R. Wood, J. Al. Deegan and A. F. Kruse. Aliss L. King, as secretary, successfully arranged the details of the evening and a ladies committee assisted to serve supper.

Messrs A. E. Steven and W. P. Linkhorn were elected secretary and club captain respectively at last night’s; executive meeting of the Hawera Amateur Athletic Club. The Hawera Amateur Athletic Club last night decided to co-operate with the Eltham and Stratford Clubs in the holding of evening sports meetings on the lines of those conducted last year. Messrs A. Grant and T. C. Gollins were appointed a sub-committee to arrange the programme in conjunction, with the Stratford and Eltham Clubs. No athletic sports will be held at the Hawera show this year.