SOUTHERN CROSS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 February 1940, Page 5

SOUTHERN CROSS

VISIT. TO -GREYMOUTH; / 1' •h. ‘ ' i The .mission ship,- Southern -Cross, * belonging to the Church of England y Melanesian Mission, arrived at Grey- e mouth-this morning. - She- will sail again for Westport this evening. The. * Southern. Cross came to New Zealand j to collect-stores, and since 'het arrival has visited Gisborne, Napier, Wellington ; and Nelson. . After calling . at WeStporf;- Wanganui and 'New Plymouth,- she. will go to Auckland-, and fronL there will sail .on her return, to the islands’/ The ’Bishop 'of Melanesia (Rt.ißev; W, H. Baddeley). - came to' t New? Zealand by the Southern Cross < to attend the General Synod at Nel- < 50n.i0..1 , This, morning, the Mayor (Mr F. A- ‘ Kitchnigharn'r went on board the ’ Southern- Cross- and on behalf of the ‘ citizens extended welcome; to Greymouth ’to the" inembers of the ship’s company. Rev.- P. C. " Williamh, head-master op. Vureas .St. Patricks School, one "of the schools conducted ! by the Melanesian Mission, suitably : replied.; o.'U tin'v A-j--- - u : In an interview with a Star re- . porter, Mr William's said that the Southprm Cross; travelled-? round--'; the Solomon Islands, .the New-,. Hebrides, arid itiie -mandated, territory of . New ; GruiribififiCSfi.b did-about'2o-,oop miles a . year,? conveying- pjbplU k hi§., dibc.dsc, ribys grid girld, teachers and their] f'anffrliesv to ’arid' 1 from the mi'ssioh schools,' tft. the mission. h'ospi-.i rials, ! and” J3tor.es ‘for the, yarjpjjs sidn, ■st-htibris.'''' Sh i e ii was“ life ’Shift Of, thftsnaiftfifihab thevMela-n > Mission had- owned. ,hdr msnden I voyage,mand. 'the’ people of-England . immediately, subscribed for the constructib'n of a rieiv vessel. Southern Cross No.. 7- was built in England and had been in service for seven ..years. She was just under 300 tons and was fitted with twin screw Diesel engines On the .p,resent ! -,y v oy,age there natives on board: as members -.of, the 'crew aiiHasseiW- Among the ,I'atter wast the > Rev., B. Bani, native missionary of the Church of England at Vila, New Hebrides. /, .