In Fiji
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New Catholic Mission Order In Fiji
THIRTEEN mission priests—one Australian, one New Zea lander and the remainder Irish—were due at Suva late February to establish a new field for the St. Colomban Mission Society, at the invitation of the Most Rev. V. Foley, SM, DD, Bishop of Fiji. They will spend some months studying the local languages before taking up stations in the western sector of Fiji.
The Colomban Fathers were in vited to assist the Marist Order in Fiji, owing to a considerable ex pansion in the Catholic population, which now numbers about 21,000.
The Colomban mission field has in the past been confined mainly to China and Par East. This arrival in Fiji brings a new Catholic mission Order to the Pacific Islands.
Miss P. Heaney, of the European School, Lae, New Guinea, has been transferred to the school at Rabaul.