Missionaries Return To The
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Solomons
PERMISSION has been given for a number of members of the Methodist Missionary Society of New Zealand to return to their work in the Solomons on the NZ ; Government vessel “Matai.”
“Matai” has been repatriating NZ Service personnel, and is expected to sail from Auckland early in November.
The mission party consists of the Rev. and Mrs. j. R. Metcalf, who are going to Choiseul; the Rev. and Mrs. A. W. E.
Silvester, returning to Vella Lavella; Mrs.
C. T. J. Luxton, to join her husband in Vella Lavella; Sisters Grace McDonald, Joy Whitehouse. Lina Jones and Effie Harkness.
Rev. J. F. Goldie, director of the mission, returned to his post in the Solomons some months ago, from Aus tralia.
The Methodist Mission estimates that over £90,000 worth of damage has been done to its stations in the Solomons.
LEAVING for the Solomon Islands by SS “Montoro” in mid-November is a party of Seventh Day Adventist mis sionaries, who will disembark at Torokina and then be transported by launch to Batuna, in the Marovo Lagoon. They are: Pastor H. White (superintendent), with his wife and children; Pastor A. R.
Barrett (secretary-treasurer) and Mrs Barrett; Mr. Lyn Thrift (headmaster of the Batuna Training School); Mr. F. L.
Aveling (engineer), Mrs. Aveling and children; and Mrs. J. Gosling and children, who will join Mr. Gosling on Malaita, where he is engaged in medical missionary work.