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Arohanui: Letters from Shoghi Effendi to New Zealand
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Pages 67-68
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(60) June 16th, 1954
Secretary, National Spiritual Assembly of the
Bahá'ís of Australia and New Zealand.
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Dear Bahá'í Brother:
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...He was very happy to see that Mrs Dunn was able
to attend the New Zealand Bahá'í Summer School. For a
woman of her age, this was surely a remarkable achievement,
and must have been a great inspiration to the New Zealand
friends, coming as she did so freshly from the last Intercontinental
Teaching Conference held in New Delhi....
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He attaches great importance to teaching the aboriginal
Australians, and also in converting more Maoris to the Faith,
and hopes that the Bahá'ís will devote some attention to contacting
both of these minority groups....
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[From the Guardian:]
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Dear and valued co-workers:
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...The multiplication of Bahá'í isolated centres,
groups and local assemblies, in both Australia and New
Zealand--a process that has been steadily and rapidly developing
since the inauguration of the Ten-Year Plan, is
likewise of paramount importance in the years immediately
ahead. The development of these institutions, particularly in
New Zealand, will no doubt hasten the emergence of an independent
National Spiritual Assembly in that territory, and
will lend a tremendous impetus to the onward march of the
Faith in those regions....
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The purchase of a building in Auckland destined to
serve as the National Hazíratu'l-Quds of the Bahá'ís of New
Zealand, is yet another objective on which attention should
be immediately focused--in anticipation of the erection of
yet another pillar of the future House of Justice in that remote
part of the world....
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(Extract, ibid., pp. 118, 119, 121, 122)
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