£10,000 Appeal For
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N. Hebrides Mission Work
rpHE Foreign Missions Committee of the -*■ Presbyterian Church of Victoria has launched a special appeal to church members all over Australia for £lO,OOO to clear the debt which exists on the work ing of foreign mission activities. Unless the money is forthcoming, work in the main field (New Hebrides) will be seriously curtailed.
The New Hebrides Mission has a special claim on the goodwill of Presby terians as the first missionary was the late Rev. John G. Paton, father of the Rev. F. H. L. Paton (born in the group and until recently minister of a Victorian Presbyterian church) and of the Rev. F.
J. Paton, at present a missionary in the New* Hebrides.
Many Presbyterians believe it is un thinkable that the late Dr. Baton's great work, for which he gave his life, should be blemished by any falling off in efficiency. The" mission has been of in calculable benefit to the people of New Hebrides.
Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Fletcher, of Salami Plantation, in the Manus District, New Guinea, returned to Lombrum by the August Macdhui.
Rev. H. J. Pearson, 8.A., sailed from Sydney for Rabaul for the Methodist Mission Society of Australasia by the Macdhui on August 20. Accompanying him was Mr, J. Trevitt, M.A., Dip. Ed., who is the new headmaster for the Mis sion’s Training College at Vunairima.
New Britain.