Administration
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Three ’Planes For N.G.
From Our Own Correspondent.
WAIT, August 10.
AEROPLANE service for admini strative purposes will soon become a commonplace. It is reported that within the last few months three aeroplanes have been imported into the Territory for the Administration, one of which is tc be stationed at Madang, where an aerodrome has already been constructed.
Rev. Father G. McServant, S.M., left Sydney by the Malaita on August 26 for Kieta, Bougainville, after six months leave in Australia. A missionary of the Marist Order, he has spent 25 years in the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Solo mon Islands, and has been stationed in recent years at Hanahan, on the nort east coast of Buka Island.
Mr. Arthur H. Fletcher, of the Mela nesian Mission, Fauabu, North Mala.
Solomon Islands, returned to the Protec torate at the end of August, after nine months’ furlough in New Zealand. As the Mission’s architect and builder he has served in Melanesia since 1927. Mr.
Fletcher said that the work of erecting a new mission hospital in the Solomons will be commenced at the end of this year.