Rev. Junius Schomberg
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T.I. Mourns Loss Of
From Our Own Correspondent
Thursday Is., Feb. 22.
MANY people on Thursday Island and in the Torres Strait district are mourning’ the loss of Rev. Junius Wilfred Schomberg, Superintendent of the Angli can Mission on Moa Island, who died on Thursday Island on February 5.
He was brought to the local hospital in a serious condition, and after suffering from acute septicaemia for a week passed away despite the self-sacrificing attentions of the doctors and nursing staff.
Mr. Shomberg had been a missionary in these parts for 14 years, and will be remembered in many ways, particularly in connection with Mission buildings for
which he was responsible. He was buried in the new church he was erecting at St.
Paul’s Mission (Moa Island) by the Bishop of Carpentaria, in the presence of the local clergy and many hundreds of natives.