Methodist Mission Cruise
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Pilgrimage to Fiji is Popular
SCHEDULED to leave Sydney on October 5 on a religious cruise to Fiji, the Katoomba has been completely booked out by Methodist ministers and their friends. Rev. Richard Piper, of the- Methodist Mission Society, which is con ducting the cruise, is seeking to charter a second vessel, to cope with the demands for accommodation.
Carrying 450 passengers, the Katoomba will arrive at Lakemba on October 12.
The company will disembark at precisely the same spot where the pioneer Method ist missionaries, Revs. Cargill and Cross, landed exactly 100 years ago. Native Fijian Methodists will be hosts, and for those who wish it accommodation has been arranged in the native village.
The following day the party will be taken to Taveuni Is. and landed at an other historic spot, Somo Somo. The excursionists will visit Levuka, the former European capital, and Bau, the old native capital of the group where King Thakambau, the paramount Fijian chief lived. En route to Lakemba the- Katoomba will call at Lautoka, where many of the passengers will leave the ship and cross by the new road, 120' miles, overland through marvellous Islands scenery to rejoin the Katoomba at Suva, Mr. K. A. Marlow, son of Mr. A. H..
Marlow, of Suva, returned to Fiji, after a vacation in Sydney, by the Niagara on April 26.
Mrs. Hinds, wife of Mr. Percy Hinds, well-known merchant, of Port Moresby, returned to Papua with her small daughter by the Macdhui from Australia on May 2.