Another Tragedy for
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Two Drowned
Another Tragedy for Melanesian Mission
TWO Europeans of the Melani Mission, BSIP, are missing* sumed dead, after a s n launch in which they were tr ling between Ugi Island and Pa on the mainland of San Christ capsized on May 26.
They are Archdeacon D. £ Hoey and Mr. D. Clunies-Ross.. natives who were also travellir the launch reached safety hours after the mishap.
The Melanesian Mission v.
MV Baddeley, and numerous ernm e n t and private ve searched the area. The ref Qantas service to Honiara, on. 27, was asked to carry out a st. on arrival, but owing to the lai night facilities in the area this impossible. The aircraft, a DC at dawn, on the 28th, and cs out an intensive air search.
It will be remembered that i deacon Hoey figured in the s< tional Reginald Poole ca s months ago. Poole murder native boy at the Melanesian M. station at Marovovo, in Novel 1955, when Hoey was in char the station. After he had mitted the murder, Poole t<pld who stood guard over him police arrived from Honiara.
The Bishop of Melanesia, the A. T. Hill, arrived in Honiara b on May 27, after attending a. ference in New Guinea and within a few hours by sea fa search area.
Mrs. Hoey and her childrei at Pawa mission station.