MISSIONARIES AND OTHERS
MAORI AND MISSIONARY. By Harold Miller. Published by the New Zealand Church Missionary Society. R. MILLER calls this a "sketch," and since it ends at about 10,000 words it is hardly a book. But it is a most impressive sketch, scholarly and really luminous, and documented on every pdge. Mr. Miller has clear and strong opinions, and strong historical foundations for them. "In the absence of : military support, the first Governors were obliged to turn time after time to the missionaries to restore law and order and to clear up mistakes that were sometimes ridiculous and once or twice rather serious. For such offices officials are never grateful. No Governor was likely to enjoy dependence upon a parcel of preachers; Hobson found it irksome, and young Captain Grey found it intolerable. After the disorders of the Bay of Islands in 1845, he began a frontal assault on the leading missionaries, and somehow prevailed upon the young Bishop of the province to support him. Then followed one of the most shameful episodes in the history of New Zealand." To those readers who may charge him with being prejudiced in describing this episode, Mr. Miller would probably reply that he would be ashamed to be anything else. For this is not a religious tract: it is an authentic chapter from the unknown history of New Zealand told by a writer who worked through the documents.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 275, 29 September 1944, Page 13
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236MISSIONARIES AND OTHERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 275, 29 September 1944, Page 13
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