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Bishop Wade Rebuilds His
BISHOP T. WADE, Vicar Apostolic of the North Solomons, is facing a tremendous task at the present time.
A prisoner of the Japanese for one month, he escaped and lived for the fol lowing 20 in the interior of his mission territory in Bougainville, sometimes en tirely alone. He came out in 1943, under considerable pressure, but has been back in his mission area, off and on, since the Americans landed at Empress Augusta Bay.
To-day he faces a complete programme of rebuilding—nothing whatsoever is left.
Of his Catholic population—and the Catholic population of the North Solo mons was more than 85 per cent, of the total—he calculates that about 25 per cent, have died of disease and starvation in the last two years. Most of his mis sionaries are dead or have disappeared; many more will be unfit to work again. —The Catholic Mission Magazine.
Miss Jean Charters, a member of the Suva Grammar School staff, was married in Suva on January 4 to Mr. Geoffrey Morris.