Bible In South Seas
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Languages
rE culmination of half a century’s mission work in the Solomon Islands by the Rev.
J. F. Goldie was seen in early August, when Mr. Goldie (now 84, and living in retirement in Mont Albert Road, Canterbury, Mel bourne) was presented with a com plete copy of the New Testament in the Roviana language. The first part of the translation by Mr.
Goldie was published in 1916; and his work of translation, in which he was helped by Miss L. M. Jones, has gone on ever since.
The Methodist newspaper says that the Bible now has been trans lated by Methodist and IMS missionaries into Tongan, Fijian, Samoan, Rotuman, Dobuan and Misiman.