Mission Work In Papua

A LETTER has been received in Syd ney from the Bishop of New Guinea (Eastern Papua) stating that, although it is a very perplexing time for the natives, the great bulk of them are “standing firm”.

There is no doubt, says the Bishop, that the resolve of the European and Polynesian members of the mission staffs to stay at their posts, wherever possible, has gone a long way towards maintain ing morale amongst the Papuans.

Although mission work cannot be car ried on on the same fcale as before the war, the plan of the missionaries is to retain as much as possible in readiness for a quick advance when better days come.

Canon Best, of the Australian Board of Missions, has refuted Mr. George H.

Johnson’s statement, in a recent news paper article, that there were no white women left in the whole of Papua and New Guinea. He points out that there are 18 women missionaries on the staff of the New Guinea Mission (Papua) who have remained at their posts, and who are. determined to carry on their work, whatever happens.

Private Wilfred Warren was killed in a traffic accident recently in Randwick, Sydney. He evidently had alighted from one bus, and was knocked down and killed by another bus, passing in a dif ferent direction. Originally from Pit cairn Island, Private Warren was well known on Norfolk Island, where he had lived for many years with the family of Mr. Peter Buffett. He had recently returned safely from service with the AIP in the Pacific, only to meet his fate in the traffic of Sydney. He was an esteemed member of the Polynesian Club.