MISSIONARIES PRAISED
SOUTH SEAS NOT PARADISE. Rear -Admiral Geoft'rey Blake, who is one of the Sea Lords, gava what he called "a bit of a chat" on the peacetime worlc of the Navy at a luncheon arranged by the London Missionary Society at the Memorial Hall recent!y- . In a tribute to the missionaries who have worked and are working in the South Sea, Admiral Blake said: "We cwe, in this area of the Pacifie, everything we have got to the missionaries. They have done an enormous amount of gocd. "The South Sea Islands are beautiful, hut they are not a white man's country and they never will be. All that idea which you get in hooks dhout their being the place for tired business men to go for life, and all that sort of thing, where there are no rates and taxes, no expenses, just doesn't work."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 526, 9 May 1933, Page 7
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