Farewell to Bishop of Melanesia
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Melanesia
THE retiring Bishop of Melanesia, Dr.
W. H. Baddeley, left Sydney on April 2 by flying-boat for England, where he will become Bishop of Whitby.
The Bishop proceeded by the “Southern Cross” from the Solomons to Rabaul, early in March; flew from Rabaul to Sydney and thence to Adelaide, where he was greeted by Mrs. Baddeley and their three children; flew to Sydney, and on to New Zealand, where he addressed many meet ings on behalf of the Melanesian Mission; and thence back to Sydney, In Sydney of March 31, a score of Sydney business men had luncheon with his Lord ship, and wished him bon voyage and happiness in his new sphere. Tributes were paid to the remarkably fine work done by the Bishon in the Solomons and New Hebrides since 1932—and especially during the Japanese invasion—and to the good relations which had existed between the Bishop and the traders and planters of the Solomons.
Speakers also praised the good service done in Sydney for the Mission over the past ten years by Major H. S. Robinson, Sydney representative of the organisation.
Among newly appointed staff to Burns, Philp branches in Papua-New Guinea are: Messrs. R. S. Murtagh, G. Tyrell, L. G.
Tait, S. T. Smith, L. R. Joyner, H. J.
Warner, J. C. Rinder, M. L. G. Mogridge, J. Stapleton, C. V. Smith, J. Murphy, and G. Watt. They have all left for the Ter ritories.