Miss Ishbel MacCuish leaves for Zimbabwe on July 10th, if all is well, for a period of three months. Her assistance will be much appreciated in the John Tallach School while Miss Katie Macaulay is at home on furlough. Mr and Mrs Neil Murray hope to leave for Zimbabwe at the end of July. Neil is anxious to work as far as possible at Binga, where there is such great need, but as their Government Work Permit is based on their work at Mbuma Hospital, there may be delay in their allocation.
Mr Dick Vermeulen has returned to Malawi and Kenya for another period of three months. It has been decided by the F.M.C. to provide permanent accommodation for the men in Malawi. Sites have already been purchased in two different places.
The Rev. P. Mzamo and Mr William Mpofu, grandson of the late John Mpofu who began the work at Nkai under the late Rev. J. B. Radasi, are going to Malawi and Kenya as Deputies from the Zimbabwe Presbytery. A minister in Malawi has expressed an interest in our Church. The Rev. P. Mzamo and Mr William Mpofu will contact him while they are in Malawi.
Miss Zekveld has received her Work Permit and will now proceed to Mbuma Hospital as soon as possible, D.V. She is travelling from Canada.
Miss Graham writes from Ingwenya Mission that they had a severe water problem recently. Something went wrong with an electric wire, and the electric motors on two of the wells ceased to operate. This was an alarming situation as it occurred at the weekend, and there were over four hundred boarding pupils and a staff of teachers dependent on the water. Mr David Ndlovu and his men returned a diesel engine from Mbuma, over a distance of one hundred miles, and succeeded in setting it up by 11 p.m. on Saturday evening. Electricians in Bulawayo were contacted the following week and they repaired the damage to the electric motors.
J.N.