Administrator On Work Of
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Missions
PRAISE of the work of the missions in Papua and New Guinea was given recently in a letter from the Admin istrator (Colonel J. K. Murray) to the Rev. A. H. Voyce, of the Methodist mission in Bougainville.
After expressing appreciation of the constructive health and social develop ment work the missions have done in the difficult years since the beginning of their
activities in the territory, the Admin istrator adds: “The mission and the ad ministration have common ground and common work in the pressing and immense task of caring for the welfare and the social and economic development of more than 1,000,000 native dependent people in this territory, in keeping with the obligations of trusteeship.”
A memorial service to the late Mrs.
M. K. Gilmour, who gave many years to the Methodist Mission in Papua, was held at Salamo in August.