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LAND & WATER 
May 25, 1916 
Colonial& Continental 
Ci)urcf) ^ocietp 
(Patron : H.M. THE KING) 
urgently needs funds for 
I.-ITS WAR ZONE CHAPLAINCIES 
Its Chaplaioi ilill remain io Brus»el», Lille, and Croii. to 
minister Io the Brilitb who are ilill to be found there. 
Iti Chaplains in Partt. Boulogne. Rouen, etc.. have done^ noble 
wcrk for our toldiers at well at for Bttttsh retidcnti. Several 
of these Chaplains have been in danger ot their live* from the 
eaenr. 
II.— ITS GREAT WORK IN WEST- 
ERN CANADA 
Western Canada ha» suffered severely throuih the war: and the 
Church hat suffered more than any other body, for a very high 
proportion of Churchmen have left their homes to go to the help 
ol the Mother Country. 
This Society help* to maioUin Clergy *nd Lay Evangelists in 
13 diocet«s of the West. 
Whole districli will be 'eft without any minister of religioo it 
its grants have to be withdrawn. 
III.— ITS WORKERS AMONGST 
OUR SCATTERED SETTLERS 
EVERYWHERE 
In the Buih d'orrtet of Auitratil. on the Eait African uplands, 
in South Africa, the West Indies, etc., the Colonial anil 
Continental Church Society aids the poor, the tcattered, the 
strvggliog, and the newly am/ed Bnlisk settler. 
Please Help Liberally NOW 
Tpeasurer : F. A. BEVAN, Esq. 
Secretary : Rev. J. D. MULLINS, 
9 Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street, E.O. 
LORD GLADSTONE, Ex-Govemor ot 
South Africa, speaking on liis experience 
as an Imperial Administrator at the annual 
meeting of tlie London Missionary Society, on 
May 10, igifa, said : " The most experienced 
men in South Africa say now — facing in- 
numerable native problems in various parts 
of the African continent — deliberately that 
the best hope of solving those problems 
happily and rightly lies in a forward mission- 
ary movement of the Churches. I found in 
South Africa the splendid missionary work 
and workers self-evident. I have never 
doubted the efficacy of missionary work." 
LORD BRYCE, Ambassador to the 
U.S.A., says : " Because Christianity 
now lies under the reproach of having failed to 
avert war between Christians, we ought to try 
more than ever not to let missionary enterprise 
faint or dag, in the firm conviction that 
nothing but Christianity can eventually 
secure the world's peace." 
Zi)t Honbon itiijifiionarp ^ocietp 
throughout the British Empire, in India, 
Africa, the South Seas, Papua, and Hongkong ; 
and through men like Livingstone, Chalmers, 
and hundreds of less known men and women, 
by education, healing the sick, and by 
preaching, is doing its part. 
Funds toward achieving the results spoken 
of by Lord Bryce and Lord Gladstone are 
earnestly solicited. 
Treasurer : Mr. Evan Spicer, D.L., J. P. 
Home Secretary : Rev. Nelson Bitton, 
16 New Bridge Street, E.C. 
(finnUnved trom pnge 50) 
in the getting a prompt return for our great primary 
products — that is, wool and wheat. That makes the 
problem of transport, whicli is now receiving the careful 
consideration of the Prime Minister in London, the 
paramount problem." 
" And what in your view does the future of Australia 
chiefly depend upon ? " I said, asking the preposterously 
overwhelming question without which no interview is 
complete. 
But the answer was not in the vague terms that such 
a question usually invites. There was fire in the reply. 
" On our education, as yours does. Programme — 
well but we haven't time to talk of that. But, some 
other day. 
But here the Seci;etary came in for the second time 
with a distinct air of finality and laid some real letters 
before his Chief. 
When I pulled out my watch with a hand tingling from 
a very cordial handshake, I gasped. . . . But 
I carried with me a much prized invitation to discuss 
education and other matters under conditions necessitating 
less official discretion on the one sideband less abject 
politeness on the other. And distinctly, a picture of 
a real man. 
NEW ZEALAND 
SIR THOMAS MACKENZIE received me in the 
beautiful new offices of the Dominion of New 
Zealand, just opposite the Tivoli site in the Strand. 
I hope Sir Thomas won't mind my saying that 
he might be 
taken for a 
Londoner. He 
doesn't want to 
be one I know ; 
he is a New Zea- 
lander through 
and through 
But as he says 
the " youngest 
colony " though 
it is as sturdily 
nationalist and 
independent in 
the best sense 
of both words 
as the other 
Dominions — well, time hasn't altered its characteristics so 
much New Zealand too has some of the best 
things of our climate (omitting some of the most beastly 
and taking volcanoes and geysers as a sort of make 
weight). In so far as the country makes the man 
they have distinctly the advantage of us. 
As all -our world has learnt with the profoundest 
sympathy, the High Commissioner's gallant son lost his 
sight from wounds in Gallipoli, and that sorrow (though 
not alluded to) made itself felt in the interview. 
Mindful of my broken conversation with Mr. Fisher on 
education, I thought the subject might serve as an 
opening here. As it happens, no choice could have 
been more felicitous. It was obviously the High Com- 
missioner's real hobby, though " Who's Who " gives 
" exploration, natural history and sport." 
Sir Thomas has been closely associated with the really 
admirable educational system of New Zealand and 
spoke of its democratic opportunity and its ingenious 
machinery. The system of Education Boards, chosen 
not directly but by the popularly elected Committees, 
and the delegation of real power and responsibility to 
these Boards, draws an admirable type to this Splendid 
opportunity of citizenship. I listened to a brilliant 
(brilliant because so transparently sincere) exposition of 
the ideals and achievements of an enthusiast. A few 
points stand out in relief. 
"Anyone capable of going from the obligatory primary 
schools to the secondary and out from these on to the 
University can do so. . , . Wherever there are 
twelve children in a village a school is pro\ided. Where- 
ever there arc less the dovcrnment provides £'6 a year 
for each child to the parents in the lonely districts to help 
pay the cost of schooling; at home. . . . It is arranged 
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