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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1969Vol. 40, No. 2

anniversary

p. 163 · Read in the full issue

BSIP Methodist's anniversary

A special service to com memorate the 40th anniversary of the arrival of the first Methodist missionaries at Luvunabule, Village, Aola, Guadalcanal, was held by the villagers on Christmas Day. The service was taken by the Rev.

Robert Stringer, of Wesley United Church, Honiara.

It was followed by custom dancing, a feast attended by more than 600 people from 46 villages, and a re-enactment of the arrival of Cornelius Tuza, the missionary who arrived from Choiseul in 1928.

Today there is a mission school at Luvunabule and another at Kolosulu. a United Church village, 12 miles inland.