From Melanesia

Interesting Mission Film

mHE Australian Board of Missions X has produced a 29-minute full-colour film entitled, Martyrs’ Harvest. It illustrates the work of the Church of England in the Diocese of Melanesia which stretches from the New Hebrides in the south, to the British Solomon Islands in the north.

Prominently featured in the film are the Mission hospitals and Mis sion training schools. Here natives from isolated districts are trained as medical aids and missionaries.

Here, too, natives receive instruc tion in animal husbandry and modern agricultural methods.

The latter part of the film is de voted entirely to the recent conse cration earlier this year of the Rev.

Alfred Hill as Bishop of Melanesia.

He is the ninth Bishop of Melanesia but the first to be consecrated on Melanesian soil. (See magazine sec tion this issue).

The film is available to churches, schools and other bodies through the offices of the Australian Board of Missions. It is also for sale at £B5 in colour and £25 in black and white.

II Mr. K. Nicholson is expected to teturn to Tarawa in January after carrying out a study of the co operative movement in India and Ceylon.

U Mr. R. R. McKellar, Chief In spector of the Bank of New South Wales, arrived in Lac on December 5 to begin a goodwill tour of the Bank’s branches in Papua and New Guinea. He planned to visit Wau, Bulolo and Rabaul, then return to Port Moresby for the official open

ing of the new Bank premises on December 13. The visit is Mr.

McKellar’s first to the Territory. It is also the first visit by a senior Bank of NSW official since the In spector for Queensland Division (Mr.

C. G. Marjason) toured P-NG in September, 1953.