Moderator General christening twins, Hilda and Helen
Photograph taken while Nelson was at Mornington Island Mission.
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Dora and the twins [Hilda and Helen]
Photograph taken while Nelson was at Mornington Island Mission. 27/06/1936.
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Church service, 203 persons present
Photograph taken while Nelson was at Mornington Island Mission. 21/06/1936.
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Church service, 203 persons present
Photograph taken while Nelson was at Mornington Island Mission. 21/06/1936.
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Shaving onboard Morning Star [sailing ship]
Photograph taken while Nelson was at Mornington Island Mission.
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Mornington Island Mission Station : Plan of main buildings
Original sketch plans prepared by JTR [Joshua Thomas Robinson] and NFN [Norman Francis Nelson]. Shows the Manse or Mission hours, Assistants cottage, Girl's dormitories, Worshop, Store and Boy's dormitory.
Typescript report on Morington Island. Norman Nelson provides his impressions of Mornington Island which includes: the people, select individuals, the land, the mission, the vegetable garden, the buildings with measurements, furnishings, staff, general activities undertaken on the Island, visitors, the effects of recent cyclone.
Mornington Island Mission Reserve
Original sketch plans prepared by JTR [Joshua Thomas Robinson] and NFN [Norman Francis Nelson]. Map of the islands in the area around Mornington Island. Includes the location of the 'Mission Station' on Mornington Island.
Mornington Island Mission Compound
Original sketch plans prepared by JTR [Joshua Thomas Robinson] and NFN [Norman Francis Nelson].]. Incomplete map of Morning Island, focusing on the layout of the mission buildings.