Mission Activities

Suspended

rE Marist Medical Mission was established in the Buka region of New Guinea mandated territory (Northern Solomons) in 1931 by Bishop Wade —who, as reported elsewhere in this issue, has been made prisoner by the Japanese and removed from Bou gainville. Nurse Alice Menzies, who was evacuated from the Mission station last December, supplies the following details of the Mission: — “We had a well-established hospital and infant welfare clinic, with out patients’ department attached, and in our spare time we taught school. We were a staff of four trained nurses, and our hospital was on Pororan, a little island four miles from the mainland. We received very short notice, and had to close down our work of years in less than 24 hours, but our hopes, likes those of most Islands people, run high that as soon as the Japs are put in their place we shall return and continue with the good work.”

Miss Josephine Singleton, younger daughter of Captain and Mrs. M. L.

Singleton, now of Suva, Fiji, and form erly of Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, was married recently to Lance-Bombardier Howard Feder, of the Fiji Artillery. The ceremony took place in the Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral, Suva, and was conducted by Rev. W, E. D. Davies,