Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 21 February 1935Vol. V, No. 7

Melanesia

p. 24 · Read in the full issue

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Mission Ketch Sails for Melanesia

CARRYING a cargo of Bibles and explanatory booklets to be distributed to Melanesian natives, the auxiliary ketch Lightbearer, manned by seven evangelists, sailed from Sydney for the Western Pacific on January 25. The party are all members of a non-denommational body called the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.

The following day the ketch returned to port, having developed engine trouble a few hours after leaving Sydney harbour. Repairs were effected and she sailed again on January 31.

The Lightbearer, which is one of the best equipped vessels of its size in Australian waters, is commanded by Mr. E. Ewins. She will call at Lord Howe Is., Papua, Thursday Is., Torres Strait Islands, and Batavia.

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