Pope’S Gift To Vunapope

Mission Natives

A RADIO set given from the private purse of Pope Pius XI. is being proudly taken back to New Guinea by Bishop G. J.

Vesters, Vicar Apostolic at Rabaul, who arrived in Sydney by the Monterey on July 13, after having visited Rome.

“When I saw the Holy Father he asked whether my people at Vunapope had heard him speak on the radio. I said that they had had no chance to hear the voice of the ‘Great White Chief,’ as they call him, because they were too poor to buy a radio set, so he gave me one him self,” the Bishop said.

Mr. Sydney lon Bossley, of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. ltd., at Penang, Fiji, married Miss Barbara Rose (“Pat") Israel, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Israel, of Lautoka. at the Methodist Church, Lau toka, on July 11.