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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1954Vol. XXV, No. 2

Early Missionary

pp. 41-43 · Read in the full issue

Remembered

DR. W. E. Sangster, noted Eng lish Methodist minister, visit ing Fiji, in July, consecrated the foundations of a new John Hunt Memorial Chapel, which is being erected on Viwa Island.

John Hunt died at Viwa in 1848, at the age of 36, following ten years of mission work in the Colony. He composed much of the Methodist Church hymn music sung in Fiji churches to-day, and was responsible for translations of parts of the New Testament into the Fijian language.

French Oceania exported 17,200 metric tons of copra during 1953,

Mr. Krishna Poonan, F. Com. A.

Ing.), FLSA (Eng.), of the Fiji iblic Works Department, has ,ssed the finals of his professional

Secretaryship Examination in Eng land, and has been elected an Asso ciate of the incorporated body of Secretaries and Executives.