Papua

Indian Missionary For

ANEW development in missionary

work is the appointment of the Rev ~. X- Sat ya Joseph B,D„ an Indian Christian and scholar, to the London Missionary Society’s station at Hula in Papua. The Rev. Joseph and his wife passed through Sydney in February, and will go on to Papua at the end of the month.

The Rev, Joseph has a pleasing person ality and is enthusiastic' about Ms new work. He belongs to the South Indian Church Missionary Society and is the first member of the Society to go into the mission field. Missionaries have of course, been going to India for genera tions; the Rev. Joseph feels that it is time for Christian Indians to do their part in spreading Christianity still fur ther.

The Rev. Joseph will not, one fears, find his task in Papua altogether easy.

The problems he will encounter there will not be the same problems he knew in India, but they will be many and they will be knotty. He may. however, be able to bring a fresh mind to bear on the troubles that are besetting the Territory at the present time.

Mr. C. L. Brock, who has been Head master of the Suva Boys’ Grammar School (Fiji) since 1937, and who has in recent years been in charge of both the boys’ and girls grammar schools, left Fiji in December to take up a position in New Zealand. He has been closely associated with the Fiji branch of the Royal Life Saving Society, and at a meeting of the branch before his depar ture, a presentation was made in recog nition of his services.