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Papua New Guinea

Author · Papua New Guinea

Hosea Linge

Died in 1975

Ligeremaluoga was born around the 1890s in the village of Kono, in New Ireland, and was baptised under the name Hosea in September 1911. Converted by the Methodist missionaries, he attended the school at Pinikidu and George Brown College, became a teacher and preacher, then taught in his turn at George Brown College. He lived through the Rabaul eruption of 1937 and the war years, retired in 1961 and died in 1975.

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