Memorial Service To
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Fairwind Victims
A COMBINED Anglican, Methodist and Congregational memorial service to officers and crew of the Fairwind was held in St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney, on September 3.
Fairwind was lost off the northern NSW coast in a cyclone. All personnel went down with her. The master was Captain Andy Campbell, well-known pre-war Burns Philp skipper. He had a crew of four white officers and 11 Papuan seamen.
The Rev. A. P. 11. Freund, of the New Guinea Lutheran Mission, and a well known Coastwatcher during the Pacific war, with Mr. Armin Kleinig and the Rev. John Juers, will open a new Lutheran mission station in the New Guinea Central Highlands early next year.
Photographs taken of two recent weddings in Western Samoa. On the left are Mr. and Mrs.
Fruen, leaving the LMS Church, Apia. The bride was Moe Suafuti, of Malautu. On the right is Miss Marj. Godinet, arriving at the Catholic Church, Apia, on the arm of her father, Mr. F. Godinet, for her marriage to Mr. W. T. T. Ward, of South Carolina, USA.
Sister M. Elizabeth (pharmacist and nurse), Sister M. Andrew (nurse) and Sister M. Celestine (teacher), of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange (Cali fornia), recently passed through Sydney en route to Nissan Island, New Guinea, to establish the first Catholic teaching and medical centre there.
A record amount of £14,000 has been raised in Australia in one year for Bap tist Mission work in Pakistan, India and New Guinea.