Death Of Missionary
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Builder In Buka
THE Methodist Mission in the Solomons has suffered a setback through the death of Mr. Charles Carter, of Auckland, New Zealand, at Buka, on Oc tober 25, less than a month after his arrival there from New Zealand.
Mr. Carter was a highly qualified fore man-builder who volunteered his services to assist in rebuilding mission stations on Bougainville. He had sailed from New Zealand on September 2, travelled by way of Sydney and Rabaul and reached Buka on September 29, There he was welcomed by the mission staff and he at once set to work to put to good use the building materials which the mission had available in the Bougainville area.
His services as a builder would have been of inestimable value to the missionaries on Bougainville.
In a tribute to Mr. Carter’s devotion to the cause of the mission, the “New Zea land Methodist Times” said: “The measure of this good man’s service to the Solomon Islands will not be measured by his few weeks on the mission field, but by the great love and devotion that con strained him. The native people will be conscious of this.” Mr, Carter leaves a widow and four children.