'i Cause after meeting with "Mother" and "Father" Dunn in
Devonport, Auckland and, in 1926, both of them served as members of the
first Local Spiritual Assembly in Auckland. Amy Dewing, as one of a small
and persevering group of New Zealand believers, was active in spreading
the Message as was her son through whose efforts a Baha'i magazine was
published in Australia and New Zealand to promote the teachings. Prior to
her passing in 1957, Amy Dewing witnessed the emergence of the New Zealand
community as an independent entity.

Having travelled extensively overseas, Bertram Dewing eventually settled
in Auckland. A tireless worker for the Faith, he was a member of the first
Local Spiritual Assembly in Devonport in 1951 and in 1958 was elected to
the second National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of New Zealand. He
pioneered to Hokianga in the same year and a decade later assisted in
spreading the Faith to New Plymouth where he worked for the Cause with
unabated zeal until he passed to the Abha Kingdom in 1972 at the age of
seventy.

Note 6. (Letter No. 16)

Dr Habib, whose older brother attained martyrdom, was born in 1888 at
Kerman_sh_ah, Persia and was given the name Mu'ayyad (meaning 'confirmed')
by 'Abdu'l-Baha. At the age of twenty-one, when en route to Beirut to
begin his medical studies at the American University, he spent a month in
the Holy Land with 'Abdu'l-Baha who took a personal interest in his
progress. Thereafter he returned each summer to serve the Cause, extending
hospitality to visitors and pilgrims, recording daily events, acquiring
spiritual knowledge from outstanding Baha'i scholars and being entrusted
with the receipt and dispatch of Tablets. Referring to Habib's student
days, 'Abdu'l-Baha extolled the young man's influence, detachment and
sanctity, saying "the fragrance of Beirut" perfumed His nostrils.

After graduating from the University of Beirut in 1914, Dr Habib operated
a dispensary at Abu-Sinan, a Druse village northeast of Akka where the
Master had temporarily settled the Baha'is: this period of close contact
with the Holy Family and daily lessons from 'Abdu'l-Baha he was later to
describe as the "most precious segment of his life". In a Tablet to Dr
Habib's father, 'Abdu'l-Baha described this dedicated young Baha'i as "A
lamp enkindled with the love of God".

In 1915, responding to the Master's specific instructions, Dr Habib
returned to his birthplace to practice his profes