Sda Missions
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Pacific Islands Stations Have Been Reorganised
Afar-reaching reorganisation of ■ the Pacific Islands missions conduc ted by the Seventh Day Adventists has been completed.
The mission stations in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, New Hebrides, Gilbert and Ellice, Cook Islands, French Oceania, Pitcairn Island and New Caledonia are now grouped as the Central Pacific Union, with headquarters in Suva. Pastor G. Brans ter, who previously had spent 17 years in Fiji, left for Suva this month, to take charge of that administration. He will have at his disposal, as an administra tion vessel, the recently-purchased 60-ft. vessel, “Viking Ahoy,” (sail and twin Diesels), which will be based on Suva.
The stations of the Southwest Pacific (Solomon Islands, Papua and New Gui nea) have been grouped in another ad ministrative union, with headquarters in Rabaul.
Formerly, all these Island mission sta tions were directed and controlled from the headquarters of the Australasian Inter-Union Conference, at Wahroonga, Sydney. The decentralisation that has been arranged is expected to simplify ad ministration very much.