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Back In The Gilberts

mHE Rev. G. H. Eastman, senior mis- X sionary of the London Missionary Society in the Gilbert Islands, who is well known in Pacific circles, was early last year gazetted chaplain to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Defence Forces, and has since been working in those islands.

Mr. Eastman was in the Gilberts for

three months after the Japanese invaded the islands, and was evacuated, together with Government officers and others, in March, 1942. In 1943, he took part in a wartime tour among the Ellice and Phoe nix Islands, during a time when the Jap anese were very active in these areas.

Last year he visited the Gilbert and Ellice Islands by air, with the senior medical officer.

Since June, 1944, Mr. and Mrs. East man have resumed their work as super intendents of the London Missionary

Society in the Gilbert Islands. Their headquarters are at Beru, where is located the well-known LMS Training Institution, Rongorongo of which Mr.

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Mr. W. Scott, formerly of Fiji, is now attached to the Public Works Depart ment at Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia. He recently returned from a trip into the Belgian Congo.

Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Ragg, of Fiji, arrived in Sydney in mid-March. It is Mrs. Ragg’s first visit to Sydney for nine years. They expect to return to Fiji in May.

Chaplain G. H. Eastman.