Islands Mission Competitio

Letter to the Editor I wonder how many people hi begun to lose faith in the mean of the word “religion” because what they have witnessed in name in small native communil similar to Tonga?

Here, it is possible to see sevei various religions competing, as ch stores or football pools comp elsewhere, for the greatest num of subscribers.

Surely this cannot be the way bring a sincere religious feeling a country—putting it on a le closely akin to big business. I sor times wonder why it is that th seems to be so much mission activity here. Perhaps it is beca the mind of a South Sea Islanc having little experience of the wo at large, is an easier victory tt that of an East London, New Y( or Auckland dock-worker!

I have met many missionar here and elsewhere, and most —1 regrettably by no means all—hi been very fine fellows, going i to their work in the best of fai But I am afraid that many 1 sight of their original goal in t rather pointless and harmful co petition—similar to the way which a good member of a G( ernment often gets bogged down party politics, to the great loss all concerned.

I am, etc..

K. Pawson

Nukualofa, Tonga.

Mr. F. I. Ryan, who recently tired from the post of secret} of the Fiji Publicity Board a Tourist Bureau, left Fiji in D ember to join the staff of f Wellington “Dominion.”