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- Reverend Neville Threlfall
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Neville Threlfall was born in Subiaco, Western Australia, on 4 October 1930. Following education by correspondence and a one-teacher school, then at Perth Modern School and the University of Western Australia, he entered the ministry of the Methodist Church in 1951. He served at Gosnells, Gnowangerup, Mount Barker, Moora and the North Midlands, before going as a missionary to Papua New Guinea in 1961. He served in the New Guinea Islands Region of the Methodist Church and then with the United Church of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, at Nakanai 1961-1964; Raluana 1964-1967; Kavieng 1968-1970; Matupit 1971; as regional secretary 1972-1975; in charge of literature and publications 1976-1977; as regional secretary again 1978-1980; and finally undertook historical work in 1981-1982, much of which was carried out while a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. Threlfall returned to ministry in Western Australia in 1982, becoming minister at Dalwallinu 1982-1989, and at Northam 1990-1993.
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Papua New Guinea; Solomon Islands
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historian; missionary
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Entered from deposit description on 4 June 2012
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National Library of Australia, http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37793339 (accessed on 4 June 2012)