MAORI WORK.

White Ribbon, Volume 15, Issue 176, 16 February 1910, Page 7

MAORI WORK.

Writing to the “Union Signal of her New Zealand experiences, Mrs Katharine Lent Stevenson comments on our native work as follows : —“ln a recent meeting at Napier, New Zealand, I was welcomed by three Maori women, each the president of a local union. They could not understand my speech, nor I theirs, but a beautiful half-caste Maori girl, who is doing evangelistic work throughout the Dominion, acted as interpreter. Their words were touching in the extreme as they spoke of the darkness which is over their people because of intemperance, and of how they hailed the white ribbon fellowship as a means of bringing them into the true light. ‘W T e know vf 'y little, one said, “but we want to oe taught, that so we may tench our people.’ The New Zealand \V. (\ T. U. is doing splendid work among the

Maoris. It seemed to mo, as I thought of the little we have done for our own Indians, that they are putting us quite to shame. Hut the New Zealand Union itself is small in numbers, and they ran lmrdlv extend their missionary activities beyond their own people. Indeed, if the World’s Missionary Fund were what it ought to he, a contribution from it might very well he given to this very interesting and promising work among native races.