The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 August 1939Vol. X, No. 1

Missionary Doctor For B.S.I.

p. 11 · Read in the full issue

The Esthonian yacht “Ahto”. after a voyage across the Pacific from U.S.A., ran on a reef near Thursday Island on August 4. She was refloated after dis charging ballast and later reached T.I. apparently undamaged.

DR. J. D. THOMSON, formerly of the South land Hospital, Invercargill, N.Z., has taken up his duties as superintendent of the Melanesian Mission’s Hospital at Fauabu, Malaita. Prior to leaving N.Z., Dr. Thomson was married in Dunedin to Sister E. Kirk, of the Southland Hospital’s staff, who has accompanied him to the Solomon Islands. Dr. Thomson has succeeded Dr. Clifford James, who, owing to family reasons, will now reside in New Zealand.—Photo by May Moore, Sydney.