CORRESPONDENCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1707, 19 January 1895, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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(To the Editor.) Sir,- —As great writers are not always known for perfect penmanship, and, errors, without the authors reading of copy, are unavoidable, allow me to correct the one or two errors made in the printing of my letter of last issue, about the middle of the column. 'For 'soul, read whole; for striking power, bead steading power. Near the (end, bead Patagonia, or the Spice Islands ; and the concluding sentence, bead, And the Ministry themselves amid the fascinating surroundings of the pet scheme, the Advances to Settlers Act, freely dividing the money, are becoming oblivious to New Zealand as a whole. —I am, etc.. 11. J. Hawkins. THE SHAFTESBURY GARDES~FETE. (TO THE EdIIOR.) } Sir, —With reference to your account of the above, please allow me to make a correction. The goods forfsale wer6 not entirely the work of the Misses Cox as stated, but were many of them made at a working party of residents in the district, held here .fortnightly for some months past. There were about 140 persons present,fthe (sale of tickets;realized £7 10s ; refreshments, £3 13s; work and fancy hrtieles, £9 Bs. Materials pui’chased, and expenses came to £6 12s leaving £l4 as the.net result for the. N.Z. Church Missionary Association. , .The Association formed about two yearsjhgo jto enable men and women in tjj» colony, who | feel called of God to go. into'the Mm -' sion field, to be trained for the (brTSfoand then sent to the posts selected for them by the Parent 1 ; Society, under whose direction they Work, while the expense of their mainfenatCG, etc., is borne by the Association. Already { three colonist's have jjeen so sent out and others are in trailing.—l am, etc., EWaud Y. Cox. The Pines, ShaftJibury, January 18th, 1895, . \.' | ' 'l':- •