The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 21 December 1933Vol. IV, No. 5

Missionary Work

p. 41 · Read in the full issue

in Fiji

Extensive preparations are afoot for the celebration of the completion of 100 years' of work in Fiji by the Methodist Missionary Society. The first European missionaries (Rev.

Wm. Cross and Rev. W. Cargill) landed on Lakemba beach on October 12, 1833; and that is the date fixed for the celebrations.

The accompanying photograph shows one section of the work of the Methodist Missions in Fiji. It shows healthy , happy children at the Jasper Williams boarding school at Lauloka.

-Block by courtesy of “Missionary Review.’