Mission Printer For 40 Years

rE death occurred recently at Nor folk Is. of Mr. Henry Menges (86) for 40 years printer to the Melane sian Mission. Bavarian by birth, his family migrated to New York, where he learned the art of printing at the “NY Herald”. His apprenticeship over, a rov ing disposition caused him to join a whaler. On the second trip he received permission to stay at Norfolk Island where, shortly after, he married Miss Nancy Christian, who still survives him together with 12 of their 14 children.

In 1880 Bishop John Selwyn engaged him as printer to the Mission and he retired in 1920, only when the head quarters was moved to the Solomons