Conference
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S.D.A. Mission Council
THE annual council session of the Australasian Union Conference of Seventh Day Adventists was held at Wahroonga, New South Wales, from Aug ust 28 to September 6. Many mission su perintendents from Pacific Islands sta tions were present.
In opening the conference, Pastor W.
G. Turner said that during the past year or so added facilities had been provided for their Islands missionaries. They were now better housed, their stations well equipped and their fleet of boats was larger and of a better type.
During 1933, reported Pastor A. H.
Piper (secretary of the conference) the Australian Sabbath schools contributed £17,141 for Islands’ mission work. In the South Seas, he said, 3909 natives were being educated by S.D.A. teachers.
Various transfers and appointments in the Pacific Islands mission staff were made by the council. Missionaries trans ferred were; Pastor N. C. Burns (Fiji to Victoria) Mr S. H. Gander (Mussau Is.
N.G., to Mt. Hagen region, Central New Guinea), Pastor G. Branster (Natuva Fiji to New South Wales), Pastor L. A. Boreas (Batuna, B.S.I., to Monomona, Queensland), Pastor W. G. Smith (Pit
cairn Is. to Lord Howe Is.), Pastor H. R.
Steed (Fiji to Mussau Is., N.G.).
Appointments made were: Mr. F. Hol lingsworth, New Hebrides; Mr R. W.
Lane, acting superintendent Fiji mission; Mr. R. R. D. Marks, Fiji; Mr. W. O.
Broad, superintendent Solomon Is.; Mr. A.
G. Jacobson, Vanua Levu; Mr. L. V. Wilkinson, Wainibuka (Fiji); Mr. A. P. Dyason, Catu Vonu (Fiji).
Pastor E. B. Rudge, of Fiji, has retired owing to ill-health and Mr. A. H. Ferris, who for many years has been on Lord Howe Island, has retired from mission in the Islands, to live in New South Wales.