FAMOUS MISSIONARY.
DR. CODRINGTON DEAD
LONDON. Sept. 12. Rev. Robert Codrington, the head n ihe Melanesian Mission from IS7I- - and the compiler of a dictionary ,-f the mota language, is dead, at the age of 92. • -The world loses one ot- its greatest . holars and one of its greatesL ■ lints,” writes a contributor of the Times' Dr. Codrington wrote the gram cars and vocabularies-of 24 languages the Pacific, and translated tin- Bible into these tongues.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2492, 12 October 1922, Page 4
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75FAMOUS MISSIONARY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2492, 12 October 1922, Page 4
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