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AITS.SION ARY EFFORT IN THE SOLOMONS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 20. Bishop J .M. Stewart, Bishop of Melanesia., who has retired owing to ill-health, returned by the mission steamer Southern Cross' last night. He expressed' liis pleasure at the appointment ais his successor of Bishop Alolyneanx, who would moye shortly to the headquarters at Siol'a, in the Solomons, and who would probably appoint an assistant bishop to carry on the work in. the south. He said that the miis-siounvr effort had bpen well iopai d bv the results., Headhunting and the worst savage practices common twenty years ago had: dp -vry-.iftn.iwi and a.nproxim ato.lv 10 per cent, of the natives of the diocese were ■rmvo.rU to Christianity.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 August 1928, Page 7
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