THE NAKED NIG.

NZ Truth, Issue 135, 18 January 1908, Page 6

THE NAKED NIG.

- v And the White Girl Missioner. That confounded cheap-jack reli.gious affair, the Melanesian Mission, is once again yelling loudly for -workers m the vineyard and for money m the bank. And the holy crew do no mdssionising worth a cent ; the niggers take all the tucker that is given them, and' mouth prayers which they don't understand, and do any Warmed thing for almost noticing and a few togs, and then put their fingers to their noses and say "Yah'!" m a most offensive way. If what one hears is ■ correct it's a shame to send white girls to these places where ithey stand a chance to he ravished, or tomahawked, or even made lunch of at any time. And the people responsible for them going there, should be poleaxed -^and given a single ticket to sheol. Christchurch, the city of eternal cadge, contributes a goodly amount to this precious Melanesian-cannibal^no-clothes-fund, and it is a pity the cash isn't diverted to a much more beneficial and necessary channel. It must be a rather nauseous, pious pitch for females, these islands, wliere they teach cat^chisni' to nigs, iwith no . pants on, and WHO WEAR NOTHING but a knowing smile from the pit of ifche abdomen upwards. It is said the clothes the converts get from ' the base European from time to time, are soon "Worn out," and they ask if or more. The reason mostly is that ithey dissipate' the garments m a little gamble, which is popularly believed to he the Maoriland equivalent of "two-up." So much for the nigger clothing fund to which the Dominion subscribes m such a spacious big din-ing-room way. As to the religious inversions engaged on the islands, (their consequences and results are of a negative character. But what does rthat matter ? The parsons and their missuses, or the unattached spinsters, are avowedly sincere m their lifework ; and if they didn't ' take on v (the culled pusson they might - get »ut of a job, so they risk malaria and the tomahawk— and no^ insurance company would give a policjr on their aives. ■ / v