Prominent Missionary Dead
ON April 28 the death occurred at Waverley, Sydney, of the Rev.
William Henry Cox, of Rabaul. Mr. Cox, who retired in March last from the position of Chairman of the New Britain District of the Methodist Mission Society owing to ill-health, had been in Sydney since last December, when he arrived from New Guinea, seriously ill.
Mr. Cox was born in Victoria in 1875 and in 1901 was appointed by the Metho dist Church to missionary work in New Britain, which was then under German control. When the Australian Military Forces occupied the territory in 1914, he did much good work in assisting the authorities in the transfer of government from German control to Australian ad ministration.
In 1928 he returned to Australia to undergo an operation, and the following year he took up duty in the Tamworth N.S.W., circuit. At the request of the Missions Board, however, he went back to New Britain as Chairman of the Dis trict. In this position, and as principal of the George Brown Training College, New Britain, he rendered eminent service to his church and to the people of the territory.