75Th Anniversary
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Anglican Mission In
P-Ng To Celebate
The Archbishop of Brisbane and former Bishop of New Guinea, the Most Rev, Philip Strong, will visit P-NG in August when the Anglican Mission celebrates its 75th anniver sary.
The mission's founders, the Rev.
Albert MacLaren and the Rev.
Copland King, landed at Kaieta, near Dogura, on August 10, 1891 (St.
Laurence's Day).
Dr. Strong will conduct a retreat for clergy and, it is hoped, will lay the foundation stone for the rebuilding of St. Barnabas Hospital at Dogura. Other anniversary plans include the reconstruction by local people of the shrine which marks the landing spot of the first missionaries and the calling of a special synod for diocesan clergy.
One man with a special interest in the celebrations will be Peter Rautamara, who can remember Albert MacLaren and Copland King. Now about 87, he was a boy at the village of Taupota when the mis sionaries visited it shortly after their arrival in New Guinea. More than 20 years later, in 1915, he became the first Papuan Anglican priest.— Susan Young.