Missionaries For The
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Islands.
ELEVEN Marist priests from Holland, France, and Germany, on their way to Pacific Islands mission stations, arrived in Sydney by the “Viminale” from Europe in mid-December. All have received special medical training. They expect to spend from 25 to 30 years in the South Seas, mainly Fiji.
Patrol Officer J. R. Black, of the New Guinea Administration, sailed from Sydney for Salamaua after furlough in Australia by the December “Neptuna”.
He will be a member of the party under Mr. J. L. Taylor, D. 0., which will leave shortly on a year’s trek through un known territory in Central and Northern New Guinea.
Mr. Harry Heath, headmaster of Middlegate School, Norfolk Island, re turned to Australia in January after two years’ service on N.I.