WILL ADAMS
Sir,--I found A.M.R.’s article on Will Adams very interesting. Ever since I was in the fifth standard I’ve wondered about him. We had a new headmaster about that time, and I remember Dad coming in with a grin one day and saying to Mother "Guess what Mr. is? A British Israelite!" Mum looked shocked and thought a new school, was called for, but ‘the idea of youngsters imbibing "British Israelitism" seemed as amusing to Dad as the discovery that Mr, was a British Israelite. Mother was right, however, because I can see on looking back that Mr. did pump propaganda into us during history and geography; not that it mattered because he was incapable of making a lesson interesting. But one history lesson he told us about Will Adams and for some reason the story made a big impression: No one could tell me anything about him; even the Encyclopaedia account was meagre; but I never lost a desire to know more. TAFFY (Green Island).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 365, 21 June 1946, Page 5
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167WILL ADAMS New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 365, 21 June 1946, Page 5
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