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Pacific Islands Monthly, 14 December 1940Vol. XI, No. 5

Mormons Leave Pacific

p. 42 · Read in the full issue

MONTH by month, Mormon mission aries have been leaving the Pacific Islands. It is reported from Samoa that most of the staff of the Mormon Mission Society has been recalled, and in October about 40 American citizens left Samoa for Salt Lake City. The work of the mission in Samoa now is being carried on by Samoans, under the super vision of an elder.

Mr. Richard William Robinson, one of Fiji’s pioneer townsmen, died at Levuka recently, aged 79 years.

Miss Gwenneth Clare, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Miedecke, of Magia Plantation, Western Samoa, was married to Mr. Leicester Mitchell Cook, of Wellington, NZ, at Apia recently.