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A V^? R t 0 « V t ral of the Australian lrecentl yhas been Pastor Kata ... Hagoso of the SDA Mission at Marovo Lagoon, Western Solomons Kata at ag birth h b S v r^ ail i e ?>. the name given him at birth by his father. His father bad tS®® converted to Christianity; h he therefore called his son the Marovan

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R t gos 9 does n ot look in the least Ji ab( *c. he is a striking-looking man sLrtin? 6 tn h a ight ’ With a hal ° of h * ir Just CSSS t 2 a soft voice and an in traveliin e D- fa bp’ He has done considerable K rL? Was a dele^a te to the SDA S d an C r£ nCe 5 San Francisco in iyjo and has paid several visits tn ink^ r vr an • States —otherwise -one might mk his mscrutability with the niieer

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■nnnmg loose m our native state De^le 3 mfrw °L the Western Solomons nilaeers JJf 1 *?- t * le war ’ organised hot 8 dnw? m reseue of 27 US airmen >not down in the area, and 180 New ee a m faae e r a m en H- Kata does s 6 mnrl to I discuss this interlude—he •hp m ?^Qr. ll w^ ested at the P re sent time in -he translations of the Bible which arp al^n ne befo?p Com H let - ion and which have (even’ yearsf 6 smce the war ’ about ion i of t thp fi S?iii’ eyis . ion^ of this transla te*tw h l e mt ° the Marovo lan m fhicT. Iha brou g h t him to Australia )leted in° vfp S /^ n ' Th u work is being com y the Br7tish i^ W - 6re - il will be Panted iativls m ?hp 1xr Fo . reign Bible Society. th Western Solomons, of ected f?«nn ? re ab ° ut 50 ’ 000 - have col- The pa A for tbe Printing.

SiSfsh JU /^ es of translating the archaic ml its fl hi- Blble : Wlth its a Hegories vould annpnr a si l( ivf’ , mto a natlve dialect nsuperaWe nJ £ l ? ym S n to be a lmost SDA hPtwpp? fc +? ata Ra S°so and the nanaged to nSp ther V have somehow K tnd d C0 K me the difficulties and ■ne end of the job is now just in sight.

LM*. Reverend J- M. Aubin, Roman eft for° » of . the South Solomons, hshorf air on Jan uary 23. rtitv f who ls .9 f French nation bp tU- s P.ent more than 40 years with h 4^n°.!U n ,^ he - So ;° m <>ns. His preSt o Australia is for health reasons.

Mr. J. B. McCaig has been selected to take the Colonial Administration Service Course in the United Kingdom, prior to being posted to Fiji as an Administrative Officer. Mr. McCaig is a graduate of Otago University, N.Z. and an old boy of John McGlashan College, Dunedin.

Mr. George Manning, who has been on the staff of the Bank of New South Wales in Suva, Fiji for the past 3J years, has returned to Australia. This completes Mr. Manning’s second tour of duty in Fiji. He was in the Colony from 1939 to 1945.