A Bell For Mangaia
pp. 89-90 · Read in the full issue
Mangaia, Cook Is.
AT long last, after heroic battles with all kinds of shortages including, at times, shortages of funds, the Sacred Heart Mission Church on Mangaia, Cook Islands, which was built practically single handed by the local priest, Father Charles, has reached completion as a church, and the young Father is now looking for a
bell to install in the little campanile.
The late war caused the disappearance of most of the church bells in countries under Nazi domination, of which Holland (the energetic young Father’s native land) was one. The search for a suitable bell is expected to be a long one, there being nothing available locally, and the faithful
are called to Mass at present by a wooden Polynesian pate.
Father Charles has returned to Holland on a year’s holiday. If, during his fur lough. he manages to locate “a bell for Mangaia, ’ he will be able to put the final touch on a labour of love covering five
years of hard work.-
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The Catholic Church, Mangaia.
Mr. lan Grabowsky, one of G’air’s bestknown New Guinea pilots in New Guinea in the 20’s and 3f)’s, is the brains behind ANA’s Air Beef scheme which airfreights fresh-killed beef from the Kimberleys, WA, to the sea coast. He was in Sydney recently and showed a film of the scheme to an interested audience.
The Efficiency Decoration has been awarded to Major A. A. Diffey, MBE, of the Fiji Military Forces. •