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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 7

First Permanent Anglican

p. 139 · Read in the full issue

Church for Apia

fhe Rev. C. W. Whonsbon-Aston >orted the culmination of eight irs of work at Apia, W. Samoa, s Christmas, when the first ser e was held in the new, and first ■manent, Anglican church in W. noa, built at a cost of £7,000. n he Rev. Whonsbon-Aston, who ! served his church for 22 years Fiji, New Guinea and Samoa, ns to spend three months in v Zealand and seven months in stralia before returning to the inds. During the first two nths of his vacation, the Bishop Polynesia and Mrs. Kempthorne 1 move into the Apia Chaplaincy I take over Mr. Whonsbon on’s parish work.