Natives Raise £365 For
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Bougainville And Buka
Memorial Hospital
INCLUDED in donations totalling £3,605 already received towards the cost of the proposed Don Alley Memorial Hos pital at Teop, Northern Bougainville, was £365 from Bougainville and Buka natives.
This was announced in October by the Foreign Mission treasurers of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, Which maintains missionaries in the Solomon Islands from Buka to New Georgia.
A fund of £lO,OOO is the target. It is proposed to erect a hospital at Teop, as a memorial to the late Rev. Don Alley, a New Zealand Mdthodjst missionary who served in the Teop district for eight years before 1942. He perished in the “Montevideo Maru.”
Native congregations of the missions at Buka, Teop and Buin raised £595 at Thanksgiving Services early in 1947, and by a previous agreement, all in excess of £250 was devoted to the Don Alley Memorial Fund.
The generous giving of these natives, who give not out of their abundance but in spite of their poverty, has been pointed out to supporters of the mission in New Zealand as a challenge to them to give a portion of their incomes for the work of rehabilitating the mission.
Five hundred advance copies of the four Gospels translated into Roviana, the speech of New Georgia, have been printed and bound in Australia and have been shipped to missionaries in the Solomon Islands. Lack of printed copies of the scriptures in native dialects have hampered the work of missionaries re turning to BSI after the Japanese occupa tion.