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Mission At Chimbu
LAST July a Sydney woman and her husband left their home, to under take two years’ work at the Roman Catholic mission at Mengindi, near Chimbu, Central New Guinea. They are Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Fauth, whose home in Strathfield was open house for Divine Word Fathers in Sydney during the war.
Learning of the need of the mission at Chimbu for women helpers, and that mission Sisters had not been permitted to go to Chimbu, Mrs. Fauth determined to do something about it.
As a married woman accompanying her husband she had less difficulty in secur ing a permit to enter this area than had the nuns and, once that difficulty had been overcome, she advertised for a nurse and a teacher to help in the work.
The nurse has not been forthcoming, but a Miss Dorothy Prior secured two years leave of absence from the Victorian Education Department and has gone with the Fauths.
Mrs. Fauth hopes that when their two-years’ term in Chimbu is up they wil have prepared the way sufficiently for Canberra to grant permission for the Sisters to continue their work there.