Melanesian Mission Relinquishes
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Control of Norfolk Island.
A HAPPY association lasting 70 years was severed recently when the Bishop of Melanesia (Rt. Rev. Baddeley) handed over the control of the Anglican Church on Norfolk Island to the Arch bishop of Sydney (Dr. Mowll). St.
Barnabas’ Station, N. 1., was founded by the Melanesian Mission workers Messrs.
Codrington, Palmer, Atkin, and Brooke in 1867.
Rev. E. Lawton, who has been in charge on Norfolk Island since 1932, has been transferred to Lord Howe Island. His successor at N.I. is Rev.
W. K. Deasey.
Originally, Norfolk Island was in cluded in the See of Tasmania, but be cause the Bishop could visit it only at great inconvenience, it was placed under the care of the Bishop of New Zealand.
After much difficulty, Bishop John Pat teson purchased 1,000 acres on Norfolk Island as a site for a mission station, and N.I. eventually became part of the diocese of Melanesia.
Mr. E. M. Marshall, 8.A., Dip. Ed., of Waipukarau, New Zealand, has been appointed to take charge of the Methodist Mission’s Training Institution at Davuilevu, Fiji.