Missionaries

Air Mail Service To BSI Missionaries

THE 20-odd New Zealanders asso ciated with the Methodist Mission in the BSI, are now able to have a better air mail service between New Zealand and the mission field.

Arrangements have been made for a private mail bag from Sydney with postal rates of 9d per half ounce, and 4d for air letter cards.

Air mail for the mission staff on New Georgia, Vella Lavella and Choiseul is now addressed to “Methodist Mission, Barakoma Air Field, Vella Lavella, B.S.L”

This does not apply to a dozen or so New Zealand Methodist mis sionaries who are stationed in Bougainville and Buka.

In the busy days of the war in the South Pacific 1943-45, when New Zealand had a division of ground troops, and several naval ships and a large Air Force establishment in the BSI and TNG, there was a fast air mail service from NZ by way of New Caledonia, New Hebrides and Guadalcanal to points further north.

Since then the BSI has been cut off from NZ except for occasional mission ships.

The Rev. and Mrs. L. W. Allen, of the LMS, Papua, were in New Zealand on furlough in August.

C. H. Meen took this happy photograph of Captain and Mrs, Irving Johnson, of the Brigantine Yankee, and son Arthur, (Then they were in Rabaul in June. Those who have seen pictures in the National Geographic Magazine of Arthur as a tod [?]der, will find It hard to believe that this [?]s the same young roan.