Tahiti Becomes a Branch

By 1974 the number of Kingdom publishers in Tahiti had grown to 199. The following year when N. H. Knorr and F. W. Franz, then president and vice president of the Watch Tower Society, visited French Polynesia, they saw that it would be more practical for the preaching work in French Polynesia to be directed, not from Fiji over 2,200 miles [3,500 km] away, but from Tahiti. Thus, on April 1, 1975, the Tahiti branch was put into operation, and the circuit overseer, Alain Jamet, was appointed the branch overseer.

By 1983 the number of publishers had grown to 538. In that year a building for a branch office and Bethel Home was built in Paea.