Malahang Mission Station, Lae
[1] The Synod and the Mission Society sought to bring the "undiluted conviction" of the historical Lutheran confession to Australia and New Guinea.
They viewed groups they encountered, differently than did the evangelical Lutherans at Finschhafen, Sattelberg, and the filial mission statements along the coast.
For him, it was necessary to bring all children of God to the understanding of salvation and petitioned the Synod in Australia frequently for new missionaries, and in 1899, it sent Christian Keysser.
According to The Adelaide Advertiser (21 October 1929), Personals Section; Pastor (Gottfried) Schmutterer is on his way to join the Lutheran Mission in New Guinea, arrived by the German steamer Oder on Sunday.
Pastor Schmutterer has spent 8 years at the mission previously but forced to abandon the work three years ago owing to ill-health[5]During World War II all missionaries left the area, and many mission stations, churches, schools and hospitals were damaged.
Between April 1943 and July 1943, the Allied Geographical Section of South West Pacific Area (command) conducted reconnaissance after the Japanese invasion.
The Terrain Handbook states at page 18; Lutheran Mission 2 miles NE of Lae.
who came to Cairns to supervise the loading of the shipment, said that Mr. P. Kidd, of Malanda, in North Queensland, would buy a Santa Gertrudis bull to mate with the heifers.
The European and native staffs of the mission consume considerable amounts of beef"[9] On 24 October 1959 the first Lae Agricultural show was run; In the livestock section, dairy cattle were the strongest exhibit.
The cattle came from the Lutheran Mission at Malahang, Mrs. Jensen's dairy, both near Lae and the Department of Agriculture and Stock and Fisheries' (DASF) property Erap[10] The mission owned 1250 acres of Coconut plantations,[11] produced copra, grew vegetables, raised poultry, cattle and other animals and operated sawmills.
[12] The Mission owned and operated a Junkers F.1313ke tri-motor aircraft named "Papua" (VH-UTS).
In August 1939, German pilots Werner Garms and Paul Raabe from Malahang took off en route to the Ogelgeng Lutheran Mission station near Mt.
After learning of the start of World War II in Europe, the two pilots decided to steal the plane and return to Germany.
Garms and Raabe made their way by steamer to Japan and then via the Trans-Siberian railway back to Germany, where both joined the Luftwaffe.
