N.G. Curios For

Mission Congress.

A CATHOLIC Missionary and Euchar istic Congress will be held at New castle, N.S.W., in February. Bishop Wolf, of the Eastern New Guinea Vicariate and the Missionary Society of the Divine Word, will be represented by Rev. Father Vincent A. Wheeler, the only Australian in the S.V.D. order.

Already a large consignment of New Guinea curios and exhibits have ar rived for exhibition in the Mission sec tion, and Father Wheeler, who will ar rive in Sydney by the January “Macd hui”, is bringing a collection he gath ered himself during a recent tour of the Society’s mission stations along the N.G. mainland coast and adjacent is lands. This tour also included a trip up the Sepik River to Marienberg.

There has been increasing activity re cently in the Mother of Pearl shell market, and there have been enquiries in Sydney both from buyers and sellers.