Polynesian

Death Of Great

Dead in Tonga, at a ripe old age is Jione Havea, known well and fav ourably as an educationist—he had spent a lifetime on the staff of Tubou

model of goodness and simplicity Here are tributes (from “Missionary Review”) by men who knew him intimately. 3 V> Col locott, MA, BD.

DLitt: Perhaps greatest of all the debts I owe to Jione Havea was the cleansing of my mind from any lingering vestiges of ideas of racial superiority. There were others; but daily contact with Jione Havea made any notions of white superiority absurd. His strong and active body, kindly happy face, his fine mind and versatility, his manly charac ter in which no element of strength and truth and gentleness was wanting, leave me grateful that I have been privileged to count him friend.”

Rev. A. H. Wood. MA, BD: “John Havea would have been recognised as an outstanding Christian in any coun try .but in a land with only 100 years of Christian history he was in himself a remarkable evidence of what Missions have done. I have never met a truer Christian minister, judged by every appropriate standard, than John Havea ”

Jione Havea,

College, Nukualofa—and loved through out the Islands kingdom as a preacher and pastor. He was a well-built man of striking personality, and his life was a