Mr. E. W. P. Chinnery

Returns From Abroad

MR. E. W. P. Chinnery, anthropologist to the Administration of the Man dated Territory of New Guinea, return ed to Sydney on January 13, by the Sonoma, after an absence of 11 months during which he visited Europe and the United States to study human biology on a Rockefeller research fellowship, and later went to Geneva to advise Mr.

P. Coleman, M.P., at the discussions on the discharge of Australia’s mandate in New Guinea.

Mr. Chinnery, in an interview, said among many lectures given by him was one at the centenary of the Royal Geographical Association, in London.

He found the keenest interest every where—particularly in the United States—in Australia’s methods of handling native problems.

He intends to return to Rabaul in March.

Mr. G. V. M. Turner, LL.B., of Syd ney, has been appointed to the position of legal assistant attached to the Crown Law Office in the Territory of New Guinea. Mr. Turner sailed for Rabaul by the Montoro, on January 6.