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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 September 1939Vol. X, No. 2

Bishop Of New Hebrides

p. 70 · Read in the full issue

I'IHE new Bishop of the New Hebrides, . Most Rev. Dr. Jules Halbert, S.M., will be consecrated at Vila, New Hebrides, on October 1. Dr. Halbert was appointed Bishop of the New Hebrides last month in succession to the late Most Rev. Dr. Victor Doucere, S.M., whose death occurred in May.

Mr. D. Everett, who has an interest in Biua Plantation, Djaul Island, New Guinea, returned to Sydney from a visit to the Mandated Territory by the August “Bulolo”. He sailed for London a few days later.