MAORI MORMONISM.
CONVENTION AT AWAPUNT. Sy T«tefr»ph—Pr«u AMMktMs. Palmerston N., April 5. ■ The annual Mormon convention "began at Awapuni, a) mile from Palmerston North, yesterday. 'Five hundred Maori members have- already assembled, with Pastor Honing «s president, and 57 American elders from Salt Lake City, as well as Maori ministers. Members are gathered from all parts of New Zealand. The Hon. Te Rangihiroa, M.P., visited the meeting. .To-morrow the assembly ,will proceed' Fo vote on the election) of 9, president for the (Mormons Church, two councillors, atnd twelve elders at Salt Lake, simultaneously with similar conventions i n «]] p ar ts 0 f the World. The convention will extend' over Easter. The Maori adherents number six thousand, and the Mormons are establishing an agricultural college at a cost of £IO,OOO.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19120406.2.54
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 238, 6 April 1912, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
130MAORI MORMONISM. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 238, 6 April 1912, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in