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Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1921, Page 9

RATANA’S REPLY TO CRITICISM. DISCXINTINUAN’CE OF HELP TO EUROPEANS. Writes Ratana to the Wanganui Chronicle: —From January last up to the present day 1 have received approximately 70,000 letters, not only from all parts of the Dominion, but also Irom the world over. Letters from the British Isles, Canada, India, Ceylon, South Africa, Commonwealth of Australia, Peru, Spain, France, Germany. Austria. Bulgaria. Czecho-Slovakia, Italy, Syria. Java, Tahiti. Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, nd Rarotonga are continuously received t<. such an extent that postages and writing material becomes a big expense. However, practically every letter is replied to. The total expenditure to date amounts to £lOO. 1 defray all expenses, ask no one for help, although monetary oilers were made by thousands of my own people as well as by pakehas. All the money in the world will never buy God’s blessing. Latest criticisms are so frequent and antagonistic, especially that of Archdeacon Williams, of Gisborne, and one or two others, that I feel impelled to write. I wish your readers to know what T have tolerated for the pakehas during the past twelve months. Thousands of sufferers have been healed of long standing ailments, which the medical realms failed to cuio. My proofs are world wide, not of one particular kind of ailment, but of all diseases and defects. Premiers, members of Parliament., doctors, ministers lawyers, scientists, tit left personages, students, (, oyeiu went officials and thousands of others have asked for help and have been cured. The time has arrived, not from lack of sympathy or because ol monetary expense, but from continuous antagonistic criticism, that I have tliis day decided to discontinue further assistance to the world sufferers. In future 1 shall be assisting my own people to the truth and the faith in the Almighty. -! am, etc., t w ratana . ’ Ratana, Wanganui, December 3.