BSI Advisory Council
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HONIARA, March 20.
HTHE meeting of the British Solomon X Islands Advisory Council, which was to have been held in March, has been postponed until July or August.
Non-official members this year are the Bishop of Melanesia (Rt. Rev. S. G. Caul ton), Mr. L. C. Thomas f General Manager of Lever’s Pacific Plantations) Mr. R. C.
Symes, and Mr. L. F. Gill.
Before a large gathering in Sheii House, Brisbane, on March 24, the Rev.
A. H. Abbott delivered an interesting ad dress based on his 16 years experience as missionary in the Solomon Islands. He went to BSI at a time when cannibalism was still practised, but he had lived to see many heathen and cannibalistic tribes converted to Christianity. Mr. Abbott has been living at Wooloowin, Brisbane, now for many years.