Historic Picture
p. 85 · Read in the full issue
The story in PIM last month (p. 81) on a visit to isolated Tench Island, 70 miles north east of New Hanover, P-NG, was of particular interest to Pastor A. G. Stewart, of Sydney.
Pastor Stewart, a pioneer Seventh-day Adventist mis sionary in New Guinea, visited Tench Island in 1931 in the Adventist mission ship “Veilo mani”. This was the first time the island had been visited by Europeans since Australia took over the administration of New Guinea in 1914.
The Tench Islanders in those days went completely naked, and the men wore plaited beards reaching to their waists.
Pastor Stewart is seen with two of them.