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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1950Vol. XX, No. 12

Success of Pitcairn School

p. 46 · Read in the full issue

WHEN Mr. A. Dobbs of the Western Pacific High Commission came back from a routine inspection of Pitcairn Island recently, one of the things he reported was the success of the gov ernment school that had been established there a couple of years ago. a tit »/r .

"“•A. W. Moverley, the New Zealand schoolteacher, who is in charge of the

school, says that the Pitcairn children are as bright as those in New Zealand & n d show no ill effects of generations of in-breeding, —■ - The Rev - H. E. Palmer has been ap- Pomtqd priest-in-charge of Dogura, Papua, sub-dean and canon residentiary of the Anglican Cathedral of S. Peter and S. Paul, and as diocesan chaplain to the bishop.