Death Of Father Harold
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Thompson
Father harold Thompson, an Anglican missionary who had spent nearly 30 years in the South Pacific, died at the Eroro Mission Hospital near Gona, Papua, on May 8.
Aged 70, Father Thompson became ill at Kumbum early in April and died a month after admission to hospital.
His work as a missionary included 11 years as priest in charge of Ambusi and Sangara in the Diocese of New Guinea, and in the Diocese of Melanesia, where he was in charge of mission work at Arawe and Lupun in New Britain. Later he be came principal of the New Vureas School in the New Hebrides, and after the war returned to New Britain and re-established the mission station of St. Boniface at Kumbum.