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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 August 1945Vol. XVI, No. 1

New General Secretary For

p. 46 · Read in the full issue

Methodist Mission

mHE Rev. Alfred Robert Gardner, who i took up his duties as General Sec retary for the Methodist Overseas Missions in August in succession to the Rev. J. W. Burton, is an Adelaide man, and received his education at Prince Alfred College.

He has not had any active missionary experience, although he has always taken an Intelligent interest in the work of overseas missions, and took advantage of the Centenary Cruise in 1935 to visit Fiji.

He also is familiar with the American missions in Egypt, a good deal of which he visited during the last great war.