New Catholic Church

In Wau, N.G.

THE Rev. Father Glover, of Wagga, N.S.W., has been appointed to take charge of the new Roman Catholic church, which has just been built at Wau, New Guinea. It is a building of attractive appearance, 66 feet long by 28 feet wide, and it can seat 60 Europeans and 130 natives. It was officially opened on May 19, by Rev. Father A. A. Aufinger and it was dedicated to Saint Francis, in memory of the late Rev. Father Francis Kirschbaum, S.V.D.

Father Glover will have pastoral charge over all the goldfields towns (Wau, Edie Creek, Bulolo, Salamaua and Lae).

Believing that he was to be prosecuted by the Police for having engaged in a fight with the driver of a mail lorry, and greatly fearing the resulting disgrace, Tailasa Vakatawa, a native medical prac titioner employed at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, as a laboratory assistant, committed suicide in May by opening the veins of his wrist. He was a quiet and well-behaved young Fijian, and was greatly distressed because he thought that, as an outcome of incidents due to his violent ternner, disgrace would fall upon the Suva Medical School, his Alma Mater.