Gilberts
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New Mission Vessel In Gilberts
THESE photographs show a new vessel of 40 tons, built at Abemama, Gil bert Islands, for the Sacred Heart Mission by Mr. W. Reiher. The little ship is powered with a Gardner engine, 54 p.S. design, and will be used by the Mission in carrying cargo and passengers and generally maintaining communications within the group.
Mr. Sidney Herbert Ray, who was lin guistic expert with the Cambridge An thropological Expedition in 1896 to New Guinea, Torres Strait, and Borneo, died recently in England at the age of 80.
He was the author of the monumental “Grammar of Melanesian Languages’’.