MISSION SHIP SAILS
VOYAGING IN PACIFIC FOUR MISSIONARIES DEPART The Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross left Auckland this afternoon on what may be her last voyage among the Pacific Islands. A large number of Church people assembled on the Queen’s Wharf to bid God-speed to four missionaries departing for the mission field. They were the Rev. A. A. Thompson. Miss I- C. Wench and Miss M. T. Simson, all of whom have seen long service in the Islands, and Mr. A. Hogger, a recruit, who has recently joined the mission and has not yet served, in the Pacific. Mr. Thompson will take up his station on the island of South Mala, Miss Simson and Mr. Hogger will be resident at Siota, and Miss Wench returns to Bungana. Captain Burgess has on board his wife and family, who are making the round trip. The Southern Cross will call first at Vila and make her way through the Banks, Torres and Santa Cruz Islands to the northern British Solomons. She will cover the same route on her return voyage, arriving back in Auckland about December 2d.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 465, 21 September 1928, Page 13
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184MISSION SHIP SAILS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 465, 21 September 1928, Page 13
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