Mission's Acute Transport

Problem

IN its anxiety to keep travelling ex penses at a minimum, the Methodist Mission insists that missionaries travelling to and from the field must journey by surface transport and not by air.

This has meant that sometimes mis sionaries have had to wait in New Zea land as long as four months for a boat connection.

Because of Fiji’s urgent need and the number of missionaries waiting in Aus tralia, rules were relaxed and air trans port agreed to; but still the problem remains unsolved.

Sister E. H. Taylor, of Queensland, has been in Sydney since May waiting for a plane booking and the Rev. and Mrs.

Ivan Blake and Beverley, after having waited in Victoria since March, came to Sydney on June 8 to embark for Auck land en route for Fiji and have been stood down daily ever since.

The Rev. and Mrs. D. I. Telfer have been waiting in Adelaide since March for a plane booking to Fiji.

We can only hope that transport faci lities will be eased soon and allow new workers to proceed to their fields and weary missionaries to take their well earned furloughs. —Methodist Missionary Review.

News has been received in Noumea that Jean Milliard, Engineer Lieutenant, taken prisoner by the Germans, was freed when the Allies advanced into Austria.

Dr. Captain Mattei, of the French medical service, has returned to France from New Caledonia. His district of Hiengherie has been taken over by Dr.

Lieutenant Ferron, who previously had charge of the Koumac area on the west coast.