The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1955Vol. XXVI, No.4

To Serve P-NG's Two Million Natives

p. 125 · Read in the full issue

umbrellas were in order when Brigadier D.

Leeland Administrator of Papua-New Guinea, [?]ed Port Moresby's new £lO,OOO Bible House October 15. The House will serve as a contribution centre for the 2,000,000 native [?]le of the Territory, who speak 500 known [?]cts. It is the first institution of its kind [?]he SW Pacific. Our photograph shows

Canon Arrowsmith, general secretary of the Bible Society, speaking into the microphone, centre, with Brigadier Cleland on his right and the Rev. F. Ure, of the London Missionary Society, on his left. The Rt. Rev. Philip Strong, Bishop of New Guinea, is on the right of the Administrator, and Mrs. Cleland is at the ex treme right of the photograph.

Photo: Papuan Prints.