Personal Notes

Mr. R. W. Robson, editor and pub lisher of The Pacific Islands Monthly, will leave Sydney by the Oronsay on November 22, on a hurried business trip to London. He will return about the end of February. While he is abroad, Mr. Robson will make a close inquiry into the position and prospects of the copra industry, particularly insofar as it is affected by whale oil production; and the result of his inquiries will be published, in due course, in this journal.

Mr. A. M. Stewart, assistant manager of Buka Plantation, Numa Numa, Bou gainville, was married on November 4, in Scotch Church, Margaret Street, Sydney, to Miss McGown, of Queens land. The young couple are booked to leave by the Mataram, for the Solo mons, on November 22.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Pryke were passen gers to New Guinea by the Marsina, which left Sydney on November 1. Mr.

Pryke, who has a property on Koranga Creek, in the Morobe district, is a well-known gold mining identity. He originally went to Papua in 1896, after the Coolgardie (West Australia) rush, and he has been in New Guinea ever since, mining on the various goldfields.

He was on the Lakekamu field, Papua, in its boom days. In 1914 he was a member of an expedition led by Sir Rupert Clarke, which did much valu able exploration work around the Fly River, Western Panua. Since he came down from New Guinea, in March of this year. Mr. Pryke’s health had not been of the best. However, as he step ped aboard the Marsina he looked to be quite his old self again.

Mr. J. A. Carpenter, managing direc tor of Messrs. W. R. Carpenter & Co., returned to Sydney by the last Mon toro, after a business trip to Rabaul.

Mr. F. R. Short, a director of Placer Development Ltd. and Bulolo Gold Dredging Co. Ltd., arrived in Sydney by the Montoro on November 12, after in specting the companies’ properties in the Morobe district of New Guinea.

Mr. J. H. L. Waterhouse, F.R.G.S., of Kew Gardens, England, after six months’ botanising in the wilds of Su vai district, inland Southern Bougainville, has gone on a trip to the British Solomons.

Mr. Alfred Daking-Smith, of Sydney, was a passenger by the Laperouse, which left for Noumea on November 7.

He has timber interests in New Cale donia.

Mr. and Mrs. L. Boullanger, who manage the Hotel de la Gare, at Nou mea, sailed from Sydney by the last trip of the Laperouse.

The Bishop of Alexishafen and Father Horsch, Procurateur of the same Mission, have left for Germany.

Rev. M. Thiele, head of the Lutheran Missions in Australasia, is at present at Finschhafen for the annual conference.

On The Wharf At Suva. Fiji.

Photo by courtesy Mr. A. J. Vogan