L.M.S. And Mission Trading
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An error appears to have been made by Mr. E. W. Harrison, of Samarai, Eastern Papua, in a letter which we published in the May issue. Mr. Harrison, in making a protest against missionary trading, said: “For some years past, the London Missionary Society, one of the wealthiest and best endowed missions in the world, in the person of its representative at Kwato, Samarai, has openly conducted trading operations, to the detriment of the legitimate traders . . . .”
We are informed by the secretary of the L.M.S. that the Society has no con nection whatever with the Kwato Mis sion. There originally was some connec tion, but it ended 16 years ago. More over, the policy of the L.M.S. is definitely against participation in trading opera tions which in any way may affect the interests of the legitimate trader.