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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 January 1940Vol. X, No. 6

Price Of Gold

pp. 67-68 · Read in the full issue

(Australian Official Quotations)

Pine Standard oz. oz.

October 2. 1939 .. £10/11/ £9/13/5 November 6 £10/11/ £9/13/5 November 13 ... £10/11/ £9/13/5 November 20 £10/13/- £9/18/3 November 27 £10/13/- £9/15/3 December 4 £10/12/6 £ 9/14/9 V 2 December 11 £ 10/12/6 £9/14/9 Vi December 18 £10/12/6 £9/14/91/2 December 25 £ 10/12/6 £9/14/9V2 January 1 , 1940 .. . £10/12/6 £9/14/9i/a January 8 £ 10/12/6 £9/14/9V 2 January 15 £10/12/9 £9/15/01/4

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work, but he has tried in vain to get into uniform. He writes: “With conscnption up to 22, one is now too old at 23.” He has again taken up his abode at Jersey (Channel Islands) for the duratioiT of the war, where he is busy on two books—one, a new version of Marcus Aurelius in modern English, and the a travel book, South America and .

Matron Hutcheon and Sisters Reid and Bland have been appointed to the staff ° f toe Paton Hospital, Port Vila, New Hebrides.

At a meeting in Melbourne last month, Rev. Maurice Frater, on behalf of the New Hebrides Presbyterian missionaries, presented a turtle-shell box to Rev. A.

C. Matthew, who, after 15 years, is re tiring from the Foreign Mission isecrec aryship of the Victorian Church. The box is a rare piece of craftsmanship exe cuted by Captain Morison, of Vila.