New Guinea Missions.
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Property To Be Restored.
THE Federal Government has decided to advise the Administrator of New Guinea that it has no objection to the repeal of the German mission ordinance 1926.
The ordinance provides that property held in New Guinea by German Missions on January 10, 1920, would be vested in the Administrator, who would by order vest such property in boards of trustees.
The missions concerned are: —Marist Mission Society, Ltd., Catholic Mission Society of the Sacred Heart, Catholic Mission Society of the Holy Ghost, the Renish Mission Society, the Lebenzell Mission.
The repeal of the ordinance means that the property will be reinvested in the missions.