Veteran Missionary Retires.
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REV. ROBERT LECK, M.A., of the Anglican New Guinea Mission, has reached the retiring age, and has returned to Australia from the Papuan mission field.
Graduating in arts at Melbourne University, he was ordained and served the Anglican Church in various parts of Victoria, before go ing to Papua in 1915 to be rector of Port Moresby. Returning to Australia in 1920, he spent a period at Wedderburn (Vic.), and then went back to Port Moresby, remaining until 1927. In 1928 he went to Samarai, at the Eastern end of the Territory, where he has since resided.
Whilst rector of Port Moresby in 1917, Rev.
Leek tided over a period of financial stress by working as “offsider” in a local engineering shop, to avoid closing the church. It fell to Mr. Leek’s lot, as Administrator of the diocese of New Guinea, to enthrone the new Bishop (Right Rev. P. N. W. Strong), on his arrival early last year.
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