36 Years in the Solomons
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THE Rev. J. R. Metcalfe, leader of the Methodist Mission in BSI and Bougainville (TNG), with headquarters at Rovi a n a, New Georgia Group, completed 36 years of service in this mission dis rict some months ago.
Mrs. Metcalfe, who was Sister Ivy Stanford before her marriage, can boast of having even longer service —she has entered on the 40 f h year of her own association with the Solomon Islands mission district.
For much of their mission service Mr. and Mrs. Metcalfe were stationed on Choiseul Island.
Mr. Metcalfe succeeded the late
Rev. J. F. Goldie as Chairman of the Solomons mission district a few years ago when Mr. Goldie had completed 48 years of association with the central BSI. As a team o* mission workers the Rev. and Mrs, Metcalfe may well equal or even eclipse in years of service to BSI the noteworthy record of Mr. and Mrs. Goldie, who began then pioneering service to the mission among the headhunters of New
Georgia in 1902-3.-
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t Visitors to Noumea may be interested to know that files of the PIM and the “Pacific Islands Year Book” ar? available for perusal in the Foto Art Studio, Qantas Building,