since its inception, has been functioning with a loyalty and
efficiency that are truly remarkable.

The success of this year's Convention, as evidenced by the report of the
proceedings you had sent, marks a further step in the process of steady
consolidation through which the N.S.A. is passing, and indicates how
strong are the loyalty and attachment which it has awakened among the body
of the believers throughout Australia and New-Zealand.

It is the Guardian's fervent hope that this confidence which your Assembly
has inspired will be further strengthened during the course of this year,
and that this in turn will deepen in the members the sense of the heavy
responsibility they have to shoulder for the extension and consolidation
of Baha'i work throughout that continent.

Now as regards your Assembly's question concerning a tie vote; as the
point raised is a secondary matter it is left to the discretion of your
N.S.A.

In the case of voting for less than nine individuals; it is not compulsory
that a ballot paper should contain necessarily nine votes. The individual
voter may record less than nine names, if he chooses to do so.

With renewed greetings and thanks from the Guardian to you and your
fellow-members in the N.S.A.,

Yours ever in His Service,
H. Rabbani.

[From the Guardian:]

Dear and valued co-worker:

I am delighted with the manifold evidences of the progress achieved
through the concerted efforts of the Australian and the New-Zealand
believers under the able direction of their elected national
representatives. I feel proud of their accomplishments, highly approve of
their plans and projected enterprises, feel grateful for the spirit that
animates them, and cherish bright hopes for the extension of their
activities. May the Beloved guide their steps, cheer their hearts and
enable them to diffuse far and wide the teachings and spirit of His Cause.

Gratefully and affectionately,
Shoghi.

LETTER OF AUGUST 30TH, 1937

August 30th, 1937

Dear Miss Brooks,

Your letter of the 17th July enclosing Miss Ethel Dawe's communication
requesting permission to visit the Holy Land has been duly received by our
beloved Guardian, and he has directed me to inform you that, at your
suggestion, he has cabled Miss Dawe directly to London, extending to her a
hearty welcome to visit the Holy Shrines in the next fall.

He hopes that in the meantime nothing will happen to alter or upset her
plans, and