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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1949Vol. XX, No. 2

Making Long Tour

p. 63 · Read in the full issue

SDA Mission Party Making Long Tour

Suva, Aug. 19.

THE “Viking Ahoy,” the vessel bought last year by the Seventh Day Ad ventist Mission from Captain H. M.

Frewen, left Suva on August 17 for Tonga, Niue and the Cook and Society Groups. Samoa will be visited on the return voyage.

The president of the Central Poly

nesian Union Mission, together with Messrs. C. Howse and A. Bussau, is mak ing a tour in the interests of the mission.

Several weeks will be spent at confer ences in the Cook and Society Groups, and the party expects to be away from Suva for about two months.

Mr. C. Stinson is navigator of the “Viking Ahoy,” and Pastor W. G. Ferris and Mr. Edwards, who will be picked up in Tonga, have also had considerable sailing experience.