Schweitzer

28 years in Papua

Life Story Of

P-Ng’S Dr.

Schweitzer

At 62 the Rev. Herbert Alfrec Brown is a brilliant academic, s world-famous authority on

fuchsias, an experienced Unguis";

and, above all, one of the longest

practising pastors in Papua-New

Guinea. jLTE is a bushy-haired, vigorous East AX Londoner, known in some circles as “the Livingstone of New Guinea”.

For more than 28 years he has worked among Papuans in the Mom area, 100 miles or so north of Port) Moresby, representing the Londonr Missionary Society, or, as it is now known. Congregational Council fon World Mission.

He arrived at Moru in early 1939,. and began making contacts withi natives, some of whom had never seen a white man, or heard of Christ..

He practised medicine, helpedl lepers, translated the Bible for local! reading and made extensive walking; patrols into rugged, virgin country toi meet primitive tribes.

His linguistic ability got him intoi hot water during the war when he; was arrested as a spy for the invad ing Japanese because of his know ledge of German.

Destructive Fire

In Australia in 1944, Mr. Brown i married an English-born nurse, Anne; Cole, who had worked in New Guinea j before the war.

Three years later, the couple lost all. their possessions when fire destroyed J the Moru mission. But this did not: deter them and they are still at Moru today.

In Bert Brown of Papua, an j English journalist, Garry Saunders,, tells the story of Mr. Brown’s varied life. Saunders paid a two-month visit: to Moru a couple of years ago to < gather his material.

The book is a deserved tribute to ' a shy, but tough and versatile English man, whom the Papuans of the Moru area regard as their own Dr.

Schweitzer.—KMcG.

(Bert Brown Op Papua. $3.85.

Published by Michael Joseph Ltd., London.

Our copy from Cassell & Co., Sydney.)