A "BRITISH RESIDENT.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2483, 23 April 1909, Page 6

A "BRITISH RESIDENT.”

The Cook Islands are a dependency of New Zealand. AVe have no objection to tlie Resident saying the best lie can in regard to the work of the London Missionary Society’s religious school. But we are desirous of knowing if one of the official duties of the British Resident of the Cook Islands is to institute “odorous comparisons” between creed and creed, to dub as sects the other faiths that are laboring zealously in the group, to sneer at their “doctrinal teaching,” by implication to pronounce .as more or less futile their “attempts” to save the souls of the natives, and to make an official Government publication (to the cost of which, as to the Resident’s salary and perquisites, members of all creeds contribute) the medium of disseminating this slight among both whites and Maoris? . . . Even in the- minor

field of the Cook Islands it behoves the head of the local Government to maintain in his official capacity a decent measure of neutrality, and not to embrol himself in the rivalries of creed and creed.— N.Z. “Tablet.”