Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, Superintendent of the Foundling Home, came to Auckland in 1860 from Lyons, France, with Bishop Pompalier, to enter mission work among the Maoris. She laboured eleven years in Auckland, and in Hawkes Bay for twelve years, starting a native school in 1883 on the Wanganui River. Having had opportunities of testing the medicinal value of many New Zealand herbs, and finding medicines expensive, she commenced to manufacture remedies for use among the natives. So wonderfully successful were her home-made remedies in dealing with difficult cases of affliction, that she was persuaded to put them on the market, and by the proceeds assist her foundling asylum. She has now five herbal remedies before the public, viz., “Marupa,” for chest affections; “Karana,” a nerve tonic; “Karamo,” a liver and gout remedy: “Wanena,” for wounds and page 1458 sores; and “Natanata,” for stomach, scrofula, and skin disorders. Two buildings are devoted to the manufacture of the remedies at Jerusalem. Samples of the remedies were sent for trial to the French soldiers engaged in the Madagascar war, and to the Pasteur Institute for inspection, and wholesale agents have been appointed in different parts of the world.