New Missionaries For
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N. Hebrides
UNMARRIED women missionaries may now be appointed to service in the Presbyterian Overseas Mission in the New Hebrides. This is the first time on record; formerly the only single women allowed to work on the mission field were nurses.
Two deaconesses, Miss A. Skinner, who spent 30 years in Korea, and Miss Hilder brand, of Melbourne, and Miss M. Alex ander, who will be. missionary house keeper at the Vila Hospital, have left on the first stage of the journey to the New Hebrides.
Monsieur F. Legras, owner of the New Caledonian paper, “Bulletin de Com merce,” recently returned, with his young son, to the Colony, after several months in Sydney. Madame and Mademoiselle Legras, who have also been holidaying in Sydney, will follow shortly.