New Bishop of Melanesia

is a New Guinea man

/ From a Port Moresby correspondent The Rt. Rev. John Chisholm, one of the Assistant Angli can Bishops of New Guinea, has been appointed Bishop of Melanesia to succeed Bishop Alfred Hill, who retires at the end of June.

HSHOP CHISHOLM, who is 44, is > at present on leave in England, is new headquarters will be Honiara, itish Solomons.

He was born at Bendigo, Victoria, d educated at the high school there, d later at Melbourne University.

Bishop Chisholm was ordained in mdon in 1947 and was a curate at . Stephen’s, Westminister, for four ars before going to New Guinea 1952.

Most of his time has been spent Dogma, the Anglican cathedral ition in the Milne Bay District, first priest-in-charge and headmaster of e primary school and, after his Gen eration in February, 1964, as as itant bishop with pastoral oversight south-east Papua.

The territory has now lost a bishop, it it will also gain one, for Bishop fred Hill will live in New Britain icn he retires.

He will take charge of the Anglican ission station of Apugi, near andrian, in West New Britain. He 11 also be chaplain to the Mel icsian Brotherhood, whose New ainea headquarters are a short stance up the coast at Pomete.

Bishop Hill knows the area well, e served there as a layman, operat-

ing small mission boats up and down the coast before the war, when New Britain was still part of the Diocese of Melanesia.

That was as different a job as it could be from his previous one —he was for some years a captain of ocean-going ships sailing between New York and Rio de Janeiro.

He left New Britain to teach at the famous Pawa boys’ school in the Eastern Solomons. During his long headmastership he built up the school to the point where it became known

, as '‘the Eton of the South Pacific .

He was ordained m 1938 and con secrated bishop in 1954.

Bishop Hill is expected to arrive in New Britain early next year after taking long leave in Britain.

Rt. Rev. John Chisholm, new Bishop of Melanesia.

Bishop Alfred Hill.