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Jubilee
'HE South Sea Evangelical Mission in the BSIP celebrated its jubilee on July 11 with ecial services and festivities in ission schools and villages.
The Mission grew out of work gun in Queensland in 1882 when ere were 10,000 South Sea Island s working on the Queensland gar plantations. The Mission is then known as the Queensland maka Mission.
In 1904, two years before the leensland Government sent the itives to their island homes, a anch of the Mission was opened the Solomon Islands and the ission took its present name.
The name of Mr. Norman Deck 11 always be associated with the andation of the Mission in the lomons. He has now retired, and e head of the Mission is Mr. A. bbins, whose headquarters are on alaita.