undoubtedly serve to enhance the prestige of
your assembly and enrich the record of your far-reaching accomplishments.
The purchase of a building in Auckland destined to serve as the National
Haziratu'l-Quds of the Baha'is 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.

Whilst these objectives are being steadily pursued by your assembly, every
effort will be exerted in the Holy Land, as a tribute to the superb spirit
animating the Australian and New Zealand believers and to their incessant
and meritorious labours in the service of the Cause they have championed,
to hasten the transfer of a part of the Baha'i international endowments to
the name of the newly constituted Israel Branch of your Assembly--an act
that will at once bestow a great spiritual and material benefit on your
Assembly and reinforce the ties binding it to the World Centre of the
Faith in the Holy Land.

May the members of these valiant communities, whose interests you so
conscientiously serve and whom you so ably represent, continue to prosper
under your wise and loving leadership, scale loftier heights in their
collective enterprise, and win a still greater measure of fame in the
service of a Cause to which they have so nobly dedicated their resources,
and which they have served, in the past thirty years, with so rare a
spirit of consecration and self-sacrifice.

That they may bring to full and early fruition the manifold tasks they
have undertaken is the constant prayer of one who has never ceased to love
and admire them for their past and present achievements, and for whose
future accomplishments he cherishes the brightest hopes.

Shoghi.

LETTER OF JULY 24, 1955

Haifa, Israel,
July 24, 1955

Mr. James Heggie, Secretary,
National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Australia and New Zealand.

Dear Baha'i Brother:

Your letters of July 27, August 5, and November 16, 1954, and January 21,
and July 5, 1955, with enclosures, have been received by the beloved
Guardian, and he has instructed me to answer you on his behalf.

He is very happy over the progress which has been made in the area under
your Assembly's jurisdiction during the past year. The news of the
purchase of the Haziratu'l-Quds in Auckland was most welcome. The
acquisition of this building is really one o