Changes in Sydney and Tonga
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Methodist Mission
Executives
THERE has been a general change around in the executives of the Methodist Overseas Missions.
Rev. A. R. Gardner followed Rev. J.
W. Burton, as general secretary, at head quarters, in Sydney.
Rev. C. F. Gribble, who had been Director of Education in Tonga for three years (where he followed Captain F. G.
L. Holland, OBE, of Tarawa fame), is now assistant secretary, in Sydney, Mr. K. R. Lambie, who was principal of the Government College, Nukualofa, was seconded from the New Zealand Government service, and is now Tonga’s Director of Education.
Rev. Roger Page, who has been head of the Methodist Church in Tonga for 38 years, will retire in June. (See article elsewhere.) Captain Holland, who was in charge of education in the Gilbert and Ellice Colony until the Jap invasion in 1942, returned to Tarawa with the Americans with the rank of major, and gave distinguished service. He then retired, and now is living in New Zealand.