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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 May 1940Vol. X, No. 10

The Old And The New

p. 28 · Read in the full issue

Miss E. D. Wallace, 8.A., Dip. Ed., re turned to Samoa recently after leave.

She is stationed at the Methodist Mis sion’s girls’ school at Avoca.

In the middle of last year a new limestone church was erected at Butaritari, Gilbert Islands, for the Sacred Heart Mission. Natives working under the supervision of Rev, Brother C. Antonie (who has been in the Colony for 45 years) took three years to build it. Top: The old wooden church which stood for 36 years.

Below: The imposing new building, 40 ft. wide, 100 ft. long, and 65 ft. from tower top to ground. —Photo: C. Kanzaki.