INTERNED GERMAN PASTOR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1623, 12 October 1916, Page 2

INTERNED GERMAN PASTOR.

TO BE REPATRIATED. Auckland, October ihli. .V (ieruian pastor at present interned with other enemy subjects ut Moluihi Island is about to be repatriated. He is the Rev. H. lleider, pastor of the Herman Reform t hnrch, who lor some nineteen years represented the London .Missionary Society a( Samoa. lie was brought to Auckland for internment, in -\o\ ember last, cod has been at .Mol ttihi ever since.

•Mr Jleider's application for repatriation was made through the American Consul-General, .Mr Winslow, of Auckland, who forwarded it to the Defence Department in Wellington. The grounds of the application were that the applicant was a clergyman, and that British clergymen who had been interned in Germany had been granted repatria--1 inn. Mr Heider further pleaded that whilst at Samoa he had worked lo establish good relations between the British Mission he represented ind the Herman Government.

1 lie case was considered, and repatriation was agreed to Mime months ago. lleider would have been placed upon his return to Germany before, but that, difficulty was experienced in the matter of obtaining a passage lor him. one of the shipping companies declining to grant it. On a previous occasion it is understood (hut when an interned enemy subject was being conveyed by a certain steamer on the first part of ids journey u, Germany the tact that he was on board occasioned n strike in Sydney on the part of members of the crew. in Mr fielder’s ease, arrangements have now been made for him (o sail bv a vessel leaving Wellington in a few days.