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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 August 1951Vol. XXII, No. 1

Death of the Rev. J. H. S.

p. 61 · Read in the full issue

Hurse

THE Rev. J. H. S. Hurse, a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the New Hebrides, died in Melbourne, Victoria, on July 18.

Mr. Hurse, who was only 34 had been ill for a long time. He was flown down from the New Hebrides about 12 months ago as a stretcher case.

During the war he served with the Australian Field Ambulance and later as a RAAF wireless-navigator.

Mr. E. Kriewald, of Port Moresby, Papua, was in Brisbane on holiday in early July.

Mr. Christian Rothes who has spent 40 years with the CSR Co.some of them in Fiji—retired from the general-managership recently.

His successor is a New Zealander, Dr. Roy Harman.