Mission Ship For Gilbert
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And Ellice
THE directors of the Seventh Day Ad ventist Mission are sending away another small mission vessel —this time, to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, a field which they have not previously cul tivated. She is a handy type of vessel, 65 feet long, with a draught of only 6 feet —handy for getting in over reefs of the atolls. She. is a sister-ship to the “Beil onani ’, which was sent recently to the Solomon Islands.
Mr. R. C. Macpherson, formerly of the staff of the “Fiji Times and Herald,” slid now a member of the sub-editorial staff of the “Daily Mercury,” Mackay, Queensland, has been appointed in ad dition, Mackay correspondent of the Aus tralian Broadcasting Commission under the Commission’s scheme for the estab lishment of its independent news service.