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“Church on Nguna, built by Rev. Peter Milne.” External view of two-storey church with thatched roof and pointed arch windows and doors. The people depicted consist mainly of indigenous women wearing long patterned cloth dresses. On the left, presumably, is Peter Milne with his family. Milne (1834-1924) was born in Aberdeen. A Licentiate of the Free Church of Scotland, he was ordained as a Missionary to the New Hebrides [Vanuatu] in Edinburgh in 1868. Marrying Mary Jane Veitch in the same year, they departed for the Islands in 1869, settling on Nguna Island in 1870. The first baptism was performed in 1880 and the island was nominally Christian by 1896. After the death of his wife in 1908, Milne continued to live on Nguna where he died in 1924 aged 90.
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