Tropica! Mushrooms
p. 77 · Read in the full issue
t Six native nuns from Fiji—Sisters of Our Lady of Nazareth —arrived in Melbourne recently with their Mother General, Mother M. Pierina, SMSM. Four of the Sisters will continue their studies with the Pre sentation Sisters—two at “Star of the Sea,” Gardenvale, and two at Presentation Convent, Windsor (Vic.). Two others will study at Brigidine Convent, Mentone. When qualified they will return to Fiji to teach.
finds crocodiles at his stopping places he shoots them and sells them to augment his meagre mission funds. The gift of a rifle by a Melbourne admirer will considerably reduce the hazards of such hunting, as Pastor Kila has been using a shot gun, which, he says, necessitates approaching to within about 18 inches of the reptiles.
Pastor Kila Galama has to assist him four ordained ministers and 21 unpaid volunteer helpers. In two years the Sabbath school membership has increased from 100 to 1,000.
During his stay in Australia, Pastor Kila visited the old Port Arthur convict settlement in Tasmania; Cadbury's chocolate factory (and enjoyed sampling the products); the Mint and Observatory in Melbourne: Holden car factory and a glass factory in Adelaide; also Gardner's diesel engine factory, where he was given some instruction to assist him in caring for his ship's engine; the Bible Society, which presented him with 100 copies of St. John
[?]lushroom culture is not an industry usually [?]d in the tropics; but Fiji has a mushroom [?]er of no mean capacity. He is Mr. W.
Pearman, of the Burns Philp staff; and this a photograph of some of his choicest [?]imens, grown at his home in Robertson [?]d, Suva. He began the enterprise 25 years and now can grow mushrooms up to 12 diameter. There is a market for every hroom Mr. Pearman can produce— of the delicate fungus appears not to be latter of longitude or latitude.
and 24 copies of the Bible; and the Sydney Royal Agricultural Show.
On tour, Pastor Ki la addressed church gatherings of up to 3,000 people, and altogether raised £8,000 for general mission funds.