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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1954Vol. XXIV, No. 12

Bulolo Passengers

p. 147 · Read in the full issue

r Dr. Alfred Wood has been appointed secretary-general of the Methodist Conference in Australia.

He was a missionary in Tonga for some years until 1948 and taught the sons of Queen Salote. tl CIMP Manea Tamarua, superintendent, Rarotonga Sanatorium, is taking a special course at Tamavua

Sanatorium, Fiji. Staff Nurses Tekura and Teroro, of Cook Islands, are also taking special courses in Suva. ti Miss R. M. Wilde returned to Bris bane by July Bulolo. Miss Wilde has been visiting her sister, Mrs.

Doris Booth, of Wau, for the past a months.

Passengers on the Bulolo from Sydney

on June 23, included -Top: Miss E.

Lampard and Miss B. R. Lehmann were off to work at Rabaul. Miss Lehmann's parents live there. Centre: Mr. and Mrs.

G. L. Platten returned to Tabar, New Ireland, after four months' leave. Lower: Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Matthews, formerly of Samarai, were going to Saiho. He is with the Department of Public Health, and is the son of the late Rev. and Mrs.

Matthews, of Port Moresby, With them are their daughters Margaret and Sue- Ellen. They were in Sydney for nine months, and were farewelled by Mrs. E.

Martin, of Sydney.

New Samarai

Church

The new church built by the Catholic Mission at Samarai, Papua. Cardinal Gilroy consecrated the church during his visit to the island on May 25.

Photo by F. Hoeter.