Planning Methodist Mission

Rebuilding In N. Guinea

From Our Own Correspondent

Rabaul, June 17.

THE Rev. C. F. Gribble and Mr. F. Field ing of the Methodist Mission Board spent a busy time in New Guinea in May and June. They surveyed Mission rebuilding requirements.

While in Kavieng they were guests of the Rev. and Mrs. B. Chenoweth. From there they went to New Hanover where the mission house at Ranmeleck was the one Methodist building left standing in the New Britain district after the war.

It was, however, so riddled with shell fire to be worthless.

They inspected all mission stations in New Ireland and New Britain and throughout their tour were welcomed en thusiastically by the native villages. At the historic centre at Molot, they inspected the place where Dr. George Brown founded the Methodist Mission in New Guinea in 1875.

On June 17, Mr. Fielding left for Bris bane but Mr. Gribble will visit Methodist Mission stations in Papua before he goes south.

He said that a team of mission builders will shortly arrive in Rabaul to carry out the extensive rebuilding programme that will be necessary.

The headquarters of the London Mis sionary Society in Australia will shortly be removing from 250 Pitt Street, Sydney, to The Boulevarde, Lewisham, where the Rev. N. F. Cocks, secretary in Australia and New Zealand, will reside. The NSW Auxiliary ,will retain an office at 250 Pitt Street.