Mission Launch Shipped to New Guinea
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New Guinea
The new 40ft, Seventh Day Adventist mission launch Malalagi, built in Sydney in January, was shipped to New Guinea as deck cargo by the February Montoro. Embodying several new feat ures for ocean-going craft, the launch was built specially for tropical conditions by Lars Hal vorsen at Neutral Bay.
Mr. H. R. Steed, the S.D.A. missionary in charge of the launch, also left for the Territory by the Montoro, with his wife and son. After leaving the Montoro, Pastor Steed, with a party of S.D.A. workers, took the boat to Mussau Island, in the St. Matthias Group, about 100 miles north of New Ireland. The party landed at Bolin, where the head S.D.A. school for the Mandated Territory was recently established.
Mr. Steed, who formerly was at Buresala Train ing School for native teachers at Ovalau, Fiji, said that almost £2000 had been subscribed for the new launch. As it cost only £1300, the balance of the subscribed money is being devoted to the construction of another mission boat. Work on tthis new craft has been already commenced at Halvorsen’s shipyards.