MELANESIAN MISSION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19858, 31 January 1928, Page 11

MELANESIAN MISSION.

A WEDDING IN LONDON. DR. AND MRS. MAYBURY. [from: our own correspondent.] LONDON. Dec. 14. All who are glad to have information regarding the Melanesian Mission will be interested to hem of the wedding which took place on November 19 of Dr. Maybury and Miss F. E. Ilaines. Dr. and Mrs. Maybury will leave England on February 3 by the Corinthic, and a fellow passenger and future worker with them in the mission will be the Rev. L. E. Cartridge, 8.A., Keble College, Oxford, and Cuddesdon Theological College. Mr. Cartridge offered himself for work on the mission staff in the mandated territory, and his offer was accepted. . He. is, therefore, tha first priest secured fox pioneer work in the Gasmata district of New Britain. He will go to Siota fceforo continuing his journey to the mandated territory. The Southern Cross Log appeals for an unmarried priest to volunteer to accompany Mr. Cartridge or to follow him. Also, the Log pleads for one or two laymen—men who have not only the technical qualifications, one of them for doing something in the way of carpentering and building, and the other for managing a motor-boat, but also some definite training 33 churchmen. In this October number of the Southern Cross Log the need was made known for £3OOO to build a new hospital in the Solomon Islands. A promise of £2OOO has been made by a donor who prefers to be known simply as "Cornstalk, and in addition, there is a sum in hand of £464. The Melanesian Mission hopes that the balance needed will be received before Dr. and Mrs. Mayburj leave England.