Aboriginal Missionaries’
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Work In Papua
PASTOR A. G. STEWART (vice-presi dent of the Seventh Day Adventists’
Australasian Union Conference), returned to Australia by the Montoro on May 18, after inspecting missions in New Guinea and Papua. He said he visited a mission station run by Dick and Jessie Richard son, Australian aborigines, reported the “Sydney Morning Herald” on May 20, and he was astounded at the work they were doing among the natives.
The mission, he said, was on the Vailala River, 200 miles west of Port Moresby.
The aborigines were sent to Papua from the Seventh-Day Adventists’ mission sta tion at Mona Mona, North Queensland, three years ago. They had practically Christianised a previously uncivilised tribe, and had built a church to seat 300
neoole They had quickly learned the language of the natives. Dick Richardson has shown great resourcefulness and initiative, and had cut and worked the wood for the church himself.
Another aboriginal couple had recently sent to a mission 100 miles east of Moresby and they also were report excellent work.