MELANESIAN MISSION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 233, 2 October 1928, Page 8

MELANESIAN MISSION.

AUSTRALIAN LECTURE TOUR. VISIT BY GENERAL SECRETARY. With a view of interesting the people of Australia in the work which is being done by the Melanesian Mission a lecture tour of New "South Wales and South Australia is to be undertaken by the general secretary of the mission, Major H. S. Robinson, who will leave Auckland by the Niagara on Monday next. During the past eighteen months he has given no less than 200 addresses on the work of the mission in various parts of New Zealand, and the Board of Missions has decided that his good work should be extended to Australia. While in Sydney, Major Robinson will make investigations in view of the possibility of a change being made in 1930 in the method of taking supplies to the Solomon Islands. At its last sitting the Melanesian Synod decided that when the time comes for discontinuing the use of the Southern Cross it will purchase two smaller vessels, one for the northern area and the other for the southern. Arrangements will be made for supplies to bo sent from Sydney by regular trading steamers. It is the intention of Major Robinson, while in Australia, to give all possible information relating to the Solomon Islands and their people. The aim of the tour i* principally to arouse a real interest in the work of the Melanesian Mission.