In And About The Islands

Mr. E. Neelands, consulting engineer to a Canadian mining house, and Mr.

Morton Webber, a mining engineer of New York, left Sydney on March 7 to inspect the leases owned by the New Guinea Developments and New Guinea Options, over which properties options have been granted.

Mr. J. H. L. Waterhouse, F.R.G.S., left Sydney by the Marsina on March 7 for Kieta. From there he will pro ceed to Siwai to complete his collec tion of plants for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England. He hopes to carry out experiments with maize and various tropical produce.

The marriage was celebrated, on March 11, at Hunter’s Hill, Sydney, of Mr. Robert D. Fitzgerald to Miss Mar jorie Harris. They will be shortly leaving for Fiji, where Mr. Fitzgerald

will take up a position as surveyor with the Government. The bride’s father, the late Mr. C. W. Harris, was at one time in charge of the Suva Harbour Works.

Captain S. N. McLean, of Oriomo Explorations Ltd., arrived in Sydney by the last trip of the Morinda. Dur ing the past 18 months he has been carrying out extensive prospecting for gold in Papua.

Sir Gould May, a noted London phy sician, and Lady May, returned to Sydney by the Niagara after a visit to Fiji. They left Sydney by the Nar kunda on their homeward journey.

The Rev. W. Green and Mrs. Green, Methodist missionaries in Fiji, were nassengers by the Sierra, which reached Sydney on February 26. Mr. Green will take up ministerial work in Australia.

Mr. H. H. Harbord, an old resident of Port Moresby, died there on March 1, from pleurisy. All Government offi ces and business houses were closed on the morning of the funeral, as a mark of respect.

Mr. J. A. G. D’Alpuget, who is very well known throughout the Islands, was a passenger for Suva by the Sierra, which left Sydney on March 7.

Mr. W. A. Newman, Administrator of Nauru, left that island by the S.S.

Petersfield on February 18 on sick leave. He will spend a few months in Australia before returning.

Mr. C. D. Meares, private secretary to General Wisdom, Administrator of the New Guinea Mandated Territory, is in Canberra at present, but returns to Rabaul by the Montoro on March 28.

Dr. G. W. Pottinger sailed for Rabaul by the Marsina on March 7, and is to be attached to the hospital medical staff there. Miss Mary Mar grie, who is to join the nursing staff, also sailed by the same vessel.

Among the passengers who arrived in Sydney from New Guinea, by the Troja on February 25 were Mr. J. H. Brad shaw, of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., Mr. J. C. Williamson, who has planta tion interests in New Guinea, and Cap tain E. C. Bye, of Rabaul.

Pastor Carr, who has been in charge of the Buresala Seventh Day Adventist Mission Station, Ovalau, Fiji, for some time, is at present in Australia.

The Rev. A. H. Scrivin, Methodist missionary in Papua, was a passenger by the last Morinda to Sydney. He was accompanied by Mrs. Scrivin and family. They will go to England later on furlough.

The Rev. P. R. Elder, who has been engaged in mission work in Papua for the Australian Board of Missions, reached Sydney by the Morinda on February 20, accompanied by Mrs Elder.

Pilot F. N. Drayton, of Guinea Air ways Ltd., is in Sydney on furlough.

During the past 8 months he has done 725 hours’ flying.

Dr. I. Hamilton Beattie has left Suva on a trip to England.

Mr. E. W. P. Chinnery, who recently returned from an extended trip abroad, and will shortly return to the Man dated Territory of New Guinea to re sume his anthropological work, is at present in Canberra, where he has de livered illustrated lectures on his work to members of the Legacy Club and the Returned Soldiers’ Club. He has been invited to give a lecture in Sydney under the auspices of the Aborigines Board.

Messrs. A. A. N. Pentland, J. M.

Bourke, and R. Holdsworth left Bris bane by the last Marsina for New Gui nea. They are members of a syndicate, which will engage in gold prospecting in the Territory.