In Pacific Islands
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French Protestant Missions In Pacific Islands
has been noted, with regret, the French Protestant Mission, i operates in New Caledonia Tahiti, has been omitted from otherwise complete lists of i Pacific Mission Societies in detail in the Pacific Islands Book of 1959. 3 ARENTLY, this happened be ause most of the missionary rganisations working in the ic Islands have representatives Sydney, where our data is sred; whereas the French «tant Mission has its head
quarters in Paris, and apparently no representative in Sydney.
The organisation—usually known as “the Paris Mission”—was estab lished in 1822, and is the principal French Protestant Missionary Society. It operates extensively in Africa and Madagascar and, in the Pacific, in N. Caledonia and Tahiti.
It took over the work of the London Missionary Society in Tahiti in 1863, and in New Caledonia in 1898.
The Society claims that more than half the people of Tahiti are Protestants and that there are 12 missionaries and 45 Tahitian pastors working in French Polynesia under the presidency of Pastor Albert Jacot.
It is claimed, also, that there are 20,000 Protestants among the natives of New Caledonia, and that most of the natives of the -Loyalty Islands
(adjoining) are Protestants. In these two groups, nine missionaries and 92 native pastors are working under the direction of Pastor M A. Ledoux.
One of the recommendations made by the chief engineer of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service during his recent visit to Fiji as a consultant to the Fiji Broadcasting Commission, is for the transfer of the transmitters from Tamavua.
Certain parts of Fiji suffer from poor radio reception from all of the four transmitters now in opera tion. The suggestion now is that the Suva transmitters—one on short-wave and two in the broad cast band —be transferred to a site near Wainimbuka a few miles from Nausori Airport.