Mission Launch Taken

From Sydney To N. Guinea

MANNED by half a dozen Australian Lutheran Missionaries, the newly acquired Lutheran Mission vessel “Umboi II” left Sydney Harbour early on November 12; and, after a non-stop run of 81 hours, arrived safely in Moreton Bay.

The Rev. A. P. H. Freund reports that they were “tossed about fairly well” in the first two or three days, feeling some thing of the gale that was reported off the southern NSW coast; but both ship and engine behaved splendidly, and the voyage was uneventful.

The vessel left Brisbane on November 27 for the North Queensland coast. Her destination was Rooke Island, in Vitiaz Strait, New Guinea, which is the head quarters of this Mission.

When Dr. D. W. Hoodless retires from his position as principal of the Central Medical School, Suva, shortly, he will be succeeded by Dr. A. S. Frater, who formerly spent several years with the Presbyterian Overseas Mission in the New Hebrides.