N.Z. IN THE SUDAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 707, 5 July 1929, Page 14

N.Z. IN THE SUDAN

WORK OF MISSIONARIES

INFLUENCE OVER NATIVES A review of the missionary work carried out by New Zealanders among the savage trobes in the Anglo-Egyp-tian Sudan was given by Mr. John Priestley, Dominion secretary to the Sudan United Mission, in St. David’s Mall last evening. New Zealand and Australia accepted control of all mission work in the Eastern Sudan, said the lecturer, and 15 years ago sent four men to work at Melut, on the Upper Nile, among the Dinkas, a tall, athletic tribe of heathens who lived by cattle-raising. Since then 17 workers had left New Zealand, five coming from Auckland, and the work had been carried far to the west of the Nile. Two principal stations had been established in the Kordofan district, inhabited by the Nuba people, and during the last two years there had been such a marked material and spiritual advance as a result of the missionaries’ teaching that the Provincial Governments had offered them special educational grants and had urged them to open new stations among tribes hitherto unreached. The lecture was illustrated by a series of lantern slides, showing the life and customs of the natives and the effects the influence of the Missionaries had had upon them.