Return To Solomons
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Mission Printer
And Press
i FTER ten years of “exile,” Mr. \ and Mrs. Fred Isom are return ing to the British Solomon Is ,nds, to resume the operation there f the Melanesian Mission Press, [r. Isom has had charge of this iction of the Melanesian Mission’s :tivities for about 40 years. He id his wife, before tne war, were dd in high esteem in the Solomons, id all the “old hands” will be ad to see them again.
Mr. and Mrs. Isom, with daughter ;argaret, aged 8, got away from the olomons in 1942 only a little while jfore the Japanese invasion. Soon fterwards, their Mission printing !ant was completely destroyed. Mr. ;om got some equipment and re ;tablished his printery at Summer ill, Sydney, in 1944, and has been irrying on there ever since. Mean hile, daughter Margaret, now 18, as gone back to the Solomons as Mission teacher. Fred Isom has Jen the Melanesian Mission printer nee 1913.