Vunapope’s Jubilee.
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50 Years’ Mission Work.
THE Golden Jubilee of the Catholic Mission, Rabaul, will be celebrated on September 29. The first Mission aries of the Sacred Heart landed at Matupit on September 29, 1882. From that event has grown the huge organ isation which now ministers to New Britain, New Ireland, the Admiralty Group, and adjacent islands. Its head quarters are at the beautiful station of Vunapope, near Kokopo (in the Rabaul district), where the Bishop of Rabaul (Right Rev. Dr. Vesters) has his resi dence, at the head of a staff of 165 Europeans, 393 native catechists and 52 native sisters.