Wireless Station
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For Methodist Mission in Papua
A WIRELESS station to communicate with missionaries on the more isolated mission stations in Papua will shortly be erected by Amalgamated Wireless (A/sia) Ltd. for the Methodist Missionary Society. This announcement was made in Sydney on February 5 at the society’s annual meeting, and Rev.
A. J. Barclay (President-General) added that it would probably be located at Salamo, the Mission’s headquarters in the Territory.
Rev. J. R. Andrew, of Dobu, Papua, told the meeting that gold prospecting had begun on the island of Misima, and that portion of the lode ran into church property. It was not known at the present time what the lode was worth.
The enhanced price of copra would have a beneficial effect on church funds in the Islands, as Islanders would be able to give more liberally.
Members expressed appreciation with the splendid work done by the medical missionary (Dr. W. G. Heaslip), who is returning from Papua. He had been able to stay longer than any other missionary in the malaria-ridden country.
Rev. R. Piper, who organised the recent cruise of 430 Australian Methodists to the Centenary celebrations in Fiji, suggested that as the tour had been so successful there should be another to the islands of New Britain and New Ireland.
Methodists would be able to see the beginning of missionary work on semi uncivilised natives.