Control of Catholic Missions

In South Seas

Dev. Dr. James Hannan, Of Mel

bourne, has been appointed by the Vatican to be national director of Ponti ficial Mission Aid activities in the South Seas.

Dr. Hannan is a young man, but his

new position is important in Catholic administration.

He will control, directly under the jurisdiction of the Apostolic Delegate (Archbishop Panico), all South Seas activities of the Superior Council of the Propagation of the Faith.

The whole Catholic mission world is being organised on a basis of Catholic Action. Native Catholics in all countries are trained from childhood to the ideals of the lay apostolate among their own particular races. The Australian issue of the official organ of the Propagation of the Faith in future will publish sections in several languages.

Rev. A. P. Jennings, who has spent 20 years in missionary work in Papua and who came South early this year on ac count of sickness, left Townsville, Nth.

Queensland, for Samarai by the Montoro on December 13. He is stationed at Wedau village, on the mainland, 20 miles from Samarai, where he works for the New Guinea Mission.

Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Purdy, of the New Hebrides, sailed from Sydney, where they spent four months as guests of Mrs.

Purdy’s sister, by the Pierre Loti on November 18.

Dr. and Mrs. E. P. Ellison, of Raro tonga, Cook Islands, have been on leave in New Zealand. Dr. Ellison, medical superintendent at Avarua, is a member of the well-known Taiaroa family of Otago, N.Z.

Rev. J. Hannan