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New Methods Of Native Food
Tonga
THAT the future of the island group of Tonga depends on new methods of native food growing is emphasised by the Rev. John Churchill in a report published in the NZ Methodist “Times” recently.
Mr. Churchill, is a NZ Methodist min ister with farming experience, and has spent the past three years in Tonga.
During that period he supervised the clearing and planting of 120 acres in native crops. 111-health has obliged Mr. Churchill to leave Tonga to continue church work in New Zealand, but his report on his efforts to increase food production in the Kingdom will be read with interest by people in other Pacific lands.
He served with the RNZAF during the war years and in the course of his duties was posted to Tonga for a time. It was then that he met the Rev. Rodger Page, veteran missionary of Tonga, and learned of the need for practical missionary work in the Islands. In 1945, Mr. Churchill, with his wife, returned to Tonga to assist in the agricultural work of the Methodist church there.