WOMAN MISSIONARY ESCAPES
Months Behind The Japanese Lines (N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 6. A young New Zealand woman missionary has just reached the United Nations’ side of the Pacific battle front after eluding the Japanese ever since their occupation of the Solomons. She is Miss Merle Farland, a trained nurse, who has been with the Methodist mission in this area for four years. Her mother is Mrs E. H. Marrlner, who lives in Gisborne. Miss Farland has two sisters in Auckland, Miss Loreen Farland, on the staff of the Auckland Hospital, and Mrs G. N. Carter, Orakei. In all her months behind the Japanese lines Miss Farland had the company of the other missionaries who had remained on the islands. They were able to avoid enemy troops and with the help of loyal natives they lived off the land hr reasonable comfort. Dressed in a summer print frock, Miss Farland made a unique picture when she reached the American lines. She looked extremely well.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22474, 8 January 1943, Page 4
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