Bible in Marovo
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A TASK which was started in the Western Solomon Islands over 30 years ago is now being completed in Australia. It is the translation of the Bible into Marovo, a dialect of the Western Solomons group.
Mr. H. B. P. Wicks, a retired Seventh-day Adventist missionary, is now completing the reading of the page proofs. He started the translation when he was in the Islands in 1920. Another missionary, Mr. A. R. Barrett, carried on where Mr. Wicks left off and completed the translation last year.
The work was sent to the British and Foreign Bible Society in London and an agreement made for
its publication. j
Sixteen South Sea Islanders were among 108 members of the New Zealand Boys’ Brigade who arrived in Sydney on the Monowai on June 16. The boys have gone on to Eng land for the international camp of Boys’ Brigades to oe held on the fields of Eton College.
The Tongan heavyweight boxer, Kitione Lave, returned to Sydney from New Zealand early in June to complete a ten-fight contract with the Australian Boxing Club. He found no prospects of suitable fights in NZ.