THE MELANESIAN MISSION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20022, 12 February 1927, Page 17

THE MELANESIAN MISSION.

REPRESENTATIVE ON COUNCIL. (From Odh Own Correspondent-) LONDON, December 15. It is announced in the Southern Cross Log that the Central Missionary Council have offered a seat to a representative of New Zealand with Melanesia and Polynesia. As neither New Zealand nor Polynesia has any official representative body in England,, it falls to the English Committee of the Melanesian Mission to make the appointment, but with a view to missionary interests in the two regions concerned, as well as in their own. The council desires someone who has a large view of mission work. At the committee meeting in November it was decided to nominate the Rev. Dr S. Bickersteth, and he has consented to serve. Dr Bickersteth, who is a residentiary canon of Canterbury, has been travelling lately mainly with the obj ict of acquainting himself with the conditions of Anglican Church life in various parts of the world. He is a member of the English Committee, and is specially interested in Melanesia owin" to che legacy left to the mission by his sister. His name is (says the Southern Cross Log) a sufficient guarantee of the wideness of his ecclesiastical and missionary interests. Satisfactory reports are received in London regarding the success of the film, “ The Isles of Enchantment.” When it was shown at Bournemouth on Armistice Day the speakers were Archbishop Julius and Captain Sinker. A collection was taken for medical work in Melanesia.