Old Missionary’S Black
p. 101 · Read in the full issue
Board Messages
BRISBANE bus travellers, pass ing through Woody Point centre have come to look for the pointed and pithy comments written in a clear hand on a big blackboard outside a Congregational Church there. It is an original and effective way of spreading the Gospel.
The blackboard messages are the work of the minister, Rev. H. P.
Schlenker. Mr. Schlenker is 85.
Fifty-seven years ago, he landed on the Papuan coast at Rigo, and went inland to the Henty Range, and opened up the Boku mission. Thus (says Mr. S. H. Chance, a retired RM), was the famous Fife Bay mission pioneered. There was plenty of fighting going on then; but Mr. Schlenker stuck it out, and he served for 31 years in the Panuan mission field.
He is still very active, walks
everywhere, and gives much en thusiasm and thought to his forth right preaching by blackboard.
Messrs. D. F. Wiley, Daniel Pule, R.C. Symes and the Rev. Father Palmer were appointed members of the Solomon Islands Copra Board as from December 5, 1951.