Mission Jobs
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Southern Cross on Varied Mission Jobs
(From Our Own Correspondent)
Noumea, Nov. 4.
THE Melanesian Mission’s MV “Southern Cross” sailed from Honiara, BSI, for New Zealand via the New Hebrides oni October 31, with the Rt. Rev. S. G. Caul ton, Bishop of Melanesia, who will tour New Hebrides Mission stations, andl Messrs. John Clayton and W. Harbutt wha are returning: to New’ Zealand after twoi years’ work with the Mission in BSI.
Recently from Lae, New Guinea, thei Southern Cross brought back two pre fabricated houses, one for the Mission’s Girls’ School at Bungana, near Tulagl,, and one for the school for junior boys at!
Maravovo. Australian timber was taken to Fuabu on Malaita, for completion of the Mission’s leper colony there, and! timber from a church and house at Make,, South Malaita, was transferred to Pawa,. in Eastern Solomons for building a new chapel. The chapel at Pawa is welll known for the skilled native carving and mrther-of-pearl inlays used in the in-' terior of the building, and these examples: of craftemanship, now fast dying out,, will be incorporated in the new and! larger building. The exterior of the new Chapel will be constructed on European; lines.
The Mission’s printing press at Taroaniara has now been rebuilt by Mr.
F. W. Isom, and the first publication, since the war was produced at the end of October.
The appointment of Mr. L.,
Richards, formerly an Administrative
officer in Tanganyika, to the British Service in the New Hebrides was; gazetted in the WPHC Gazette of
October 7. His appointment—he
will be Deputy Commissioner for the
Western Pacific, a Deputy Registrad
of High Commissioner’s Court in thej
NH, British District Agent Central,
District, and Commandant of Con-|
stabulary—takes effect from mid-|
August.