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Melanesia News My Role As Executive Officer Is Receiving the Melanesian Mission Issue 64, Summer 2009 Registered Charity No Looking Back... One of the many joys of Melanesia News my role as Executive Officer is receiving The Melanesian Mission Issue 64, Summer 2009 Registered Charity No. 1104551 photos and news about the Mission from days Flood Relief Work Continues gone by. Over the past few Very early on 1st February 2009 emails started to months I have been sent come through to the office of the Melanesian some wonderful images Mission with news of severe flooding in Solomon of the Southern Cross Islands. The following reports are extracts from as well as copies of those emails:- The Southern Cross stuck on the reef at Maravovo personal letters from a 1st February in 1962. Captain Gordon Sharp was assigned the Royal Navy Officer There has been task of retrieving the ship from the reef. His wife, serious flooding working in the South Christine Sharp, who sent in these photos, provided The Church of Pacific in the early 1900s. on Guadalcanal, the new compass in Gordon’s memory for the which has Melanesia elects Here is just a selection Southern Cross when it was refitted in the 1990s. new Archbishop of these archives. claimed several lives. In our area He is the Rt Revd The Allsup Collection David Vunagi who is Captain Claud Finlinson Allsup at Kohimarama and Tabalia, all currently the Bishop was a Royal Navy Captian who Roads washed away by the floods of the Diocese of started his naval career at the the students, staff, Brothers and Novices are fine, but the roads Temotu in Solomon age of 15 in 1896. His travels Islands. before the first World War took will be beyond use for many months, the food gardens have been destroyed and water sources Bishop David was him to the South Pacific where elected by the he encountered Melanesians destroyed or contaminated. So some big challenges ahead, the first of which is averting Provincial Electoral and the Mission for the first time. Board on 4th March In a letter to Claud from his starvation and dealing with diseases. Fortunately the Church is already putting a disaster relief plan at Tetete Ni Kolivuti, mother, Clara, (dated 9th headquarters of the November 1906) she tells of her into operation, Bishops Dudley Tuti and Leonard Alafiua at and hopefully the Sisters of the Church their consecration on 30th November 1963. visit to Church House (with Aunt east of Honiara. Lucy) for the Annual Meeting of government will Continued on page 4 the Melanesian Mission where the Bishop of London, the Headmaster of respond shortly. Eton and ‘several missionaries’ spoke. She tells Claud that the “missionaries 2nd February seem to be working hard, but want so much more money and men.” Between four and eight lives appear to Along with this collection of letters, Claud’s family has given a set of have been lost. Included in the affected Mission postcards which date from c1904 showcasing the Mission’s work area are many villages, including those in Santa Cruz, Ysabel, Ugi and Florida. One of the cards shows a fine in the Anglican parishes of Sahulu and picture of the Southern Cross steaming through the waters. Once Food relief being delivered by the Marovovo with a total population of the catalogued, this collection will be lodged at SOAS with other Mission Church of Melanesia Continued on page 2 archives. For access to these please contact Dave Friswell. 160th Anniversary Festival - turn to page 13 24 1 Flood Relief (cont’d) It reads: I sent a copy of this letter to the ‘My dear Coley, Librarian at St John’s College, area of about 10,000. Also I have now at length strong reason Auckland, who is making a in this area are Selwyn for believing that next Sunday will collection of all of Bishop Selwyn’s College, the HQ of the be your last at Feniton, as the leak letters. Soon it will be available for Melanesian Brotherhood, has been discovered and the all to see, while the original the Bishop Patteson process of repair is now going on. remains protected from further Theological College insect and other damage. (BPTC), the headquarters My hope is to concentrate of the Sisters of Melanesia, on this collection this year and of the Society of Saint and then in 2010 move on Francis. to the papers at the Selwyn College was literally Provincial Office. inundated; fortunately As former Archbishop students had not yet arrived Ellison told the last for the start of term and the The effects of logging as trunks and branches are General Synod, the ACoM washed down the hillsides destroying all in their path College has been needs a room or building in temporarily closed. Some of the Wednesday and bring back one which to house its own people from Vatupilei village had a hundred people (our third year archives. narrow escape when floodwaters diploma students and their The SI National Archives swept their houses away. Over ninety- families) who will go to their were subject to some theft five percent of the food gardens have dioceses on practical a little during the ethnic tension been destroyed and are beyond use. earlier than anticipated. This will period. It would be better if Food stocks are now exhausted and reduce the strain on food at the the ACoM had its own the gardens will not produce anything College. An assessment team facilities. for at least two months. They will not will also travel on the Southern If you have old Melanesian be back to full production for at least Cross and we hope to make a Mission or Diocese of six months. In our community, we will fuller report on immediate aid Melanesia materials, do need to import by sea about ten requirements by Friday this not hesitate to contact tonnes of food a week. Rainwater week. We will then start to deal Dave Friswell (contact collected in tanks can be drunk, but with longer-term reconstruction. details on back of this will be exhausted soon after the The Church of Melanesia has magazine). Please rain stops, and then contaminated allocated over fifty percent of its consider depositing them water will have to be used for relief fund for the initial for a secure future in the washing, cleaning and drinking. emergency work. There will be ACoM or Mission’s Some villages have been significantly further calls on limited budgets, I know nothing to detain us after archives.” damaged. At present the people who in terms of providing food, this week, and even if the wind Bishop Terry will also be assisting lost their homes in Vatupilei are living medicines and the provision of should not be fair. I should like to with the Bishop Patteson in our College's primary school. clean water supplies. get the party on board as soon as Theological College B.Th. In the immediate future, the MV 10th February we are ready. programme, particularly with the Southern Cross will take relief food Flooding has now subsided and I will write once more to tell you final papers. No rest for the retired! supplies to West Guadalcanal on the mud is starting to dry. The when to start.’ 2 23 casualty figure now stands at 21, be shipped in. The relief supplies What do Bishops do when they retire? being 10 dead and 11 missing shipped in last Thursday are now Former Bishop of Malaita Diocese Therefore, I shall be both presumed dead. Food and fuel almost exhausted. Ongoing the Rt Rev Terry Brown is being preserving items and making supplies were delivered to our shipping demands for food and fuel engaged to properly reorganise and photocopies or digital copies to communities last week by the MV will be about 40 tonnes a week document the Church of make them more accessible. Southern Cross and RSIPV Lata. once Selwyn College is reopened Melanesia’s historical materials, For example, I have scanned over Selwyn College is yet to reopen but (16 tonnes for BPTC, Tabalia and some of which span more that 150 four hundred photos of R W BPTC has now commenced surrounding villages; 24 tonnes for years. Bishop Terry writes:- Beattie, the Tasmanian classes. Selwyn College and surrounding “During my last couple years as photographer, who visited AusAID have taken over repair of communities), so a weekly the road on behalf shipping schedule Bishop of Malaita, I frequently Melanesia on the Southern Cross consulted the Church of Melanesia in 1906. I hope to put these on an of the local will be needed. archives on deposit at the National inexpensive CD for sale at the authorities and has The critical factor Archives of the Solomon Islands in Provincial book store. commenced remains clean Honiara. These cover the period I have also been transcribing some repairs at Tamboko water which it is from about 1850 to 1980, though of the journals and hope to publish Bridge. If the not practicable to there are many gaps. I frequently them or put them on the internet. weather is good, ship in. With recent found that the National Archives Already I have put many early temporary repairs rain, the rainwater staff could not find the material I Melanesian Mission published at Tamboko Bridge tanks have requested and some of it was materials on the Anglican church should be thankfully refilled, damaged or in the wrong place. history site, Project Canterbury, completed by the middle of this including a new tank at Vaturanga. I decided that a good retirement (www.anglicanhistory.org), on the week. They will then move onto Additionally, the dam at project would be to assess and Oceania directory.
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