MELANESIA
EXTENSION OF MISSIONARY WORK. PBES3 ASSOCIATION". AUCKLAND. April 5. Important extensions of the Melancsion Mission work are foreshadowed by Bishop Wilson, of Melanesia, who ia about to leave for the islands. The mission steamer Southern Cross will make three instead of two voyages in tho season, enabling tho outlying islands to ho visitod, hut increasing the cost of running tho vessel from £4400 to £SOOO. European house:! are being built for tho mission workers in tho hope of reducing malarial fever. Since tho death of Mr Godden in October over thirty men and two ladies had volunteered for .service. Ton men, including two Australian priests and two ladies, had boon accepted. The ladies, who belonged to Christchurch, would commence next year, while seven young men were in training colleges. He looked forward with hopefulness to three years hence, when the mission staff would ho doubled. ' New Zealand gave £3300 annually to the mission, but ho hoped it would now give £4OOO.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6176, 6 April 1907, Page 7
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