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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1955Vol. XXVI, No.2

Rev. C. L. Mountford is

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New Rector of Honiara

(From Our Own Correspondent) THE Rev. Conrad Leigh Mountford, of the Melanesian Mission, has been appointed Rector of Honiara, BSIP, in succession to the Rev. R. P. Garrity.

Mr. Mountford, a New Zealander, served with the Melanesian Mission in the Solomons from 1925 to 1927.

He was Archdeacon of Akaroa, NZ, from 1944 to 1949, and from 1949 to 1953 was Archdeacon of Christ church. He is at present vicar of Mount Roskill, in the Diocese of Auckland.

Mr. Mountford is expected to

arrive at Honiara towards the e of the year.

His son, Mr. Roger MountfordJ headmaster of Alangaula Melanes: Mission School at the island Ugi, in the eastern Solomons.