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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1969Vol. 40, No. 3

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p. 101 · Read in the full issue

Mission Work In New Guinea

PARADISE, by Eric A Were, described as “a photo story of New Guinea and its emerging people”, is of a higher standard than the propaganda books usually put out by missions in the South Pacific.

Published bv Pacific Press Publishj Association of California this at plates in colour ’ does " ot attempt to

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activities of the Seventh-day Adventist mission in New Guinea. But it is a soft sell, which gives credit for work done by other missions and by the New Guinea Administration.

Australian Eric Were, who took the photographs and wrote the text, once worked for a living as an over seer on a goldmining lease in the Upper Ramu, but these days he makes documentary films for the Seventh-day Adventist Church and does a l ot °f writing. Since it concen trates on mission work mainly in the Highlands and the Sepik, the book ih represent ?*; ve o£ N« w Guinea;

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tures of medical help. But it is honest New Guineana.

Our copy from Signs Publishing Company, Warburton, Vic., retail price about 53.80.