Personal Notes

Mr. W. R. Carpenter left Sydney on a hurried business visit to Rabaul by the S.S. Templar on April 8. He ex pected to be back in Sydney before the end of the month.

Mr. Harry Brittain, B.A., Dip. Ed., has left for Nauru, where he will occupy the position of Director of Education.

He has been loaned by the Victorian Education Department.

Rev. R. L. Turner, M.A.. and Mrs Turner, were passengers to Port Mores by by the March Morinda. Mr. Turner was until lately principal of Lawes Col lege, Papua. He has returned to the Territory to take up his new work at Delena, where the Hon. Rev. H. M.

Dauncey was engaged for so long, until he retired in 1929, after 42 years’ ser vice in Papua.

Among the outgoing passengers from Vavau (Tonga) on the February Tofua were Mrs. M. E. Thompson and, her niece. Miss E. Waldron. Mrs. Thomp son has been teaching at the Girls’

College during the past five years, and by her quiet and untiring devotion to her work she has won the respect and friendship of the Europeans and Ton gans of Vavau. Recently, however, failing health made it imperative for her to return to a mere temperate cli mate, and her friends hope she will rapidly regain her former health and strength. She will be a great loss to

the mission work in Vavau, and the post she has vacated will be a difficult one to fill.

Captain C. W. W. Bartram, a well known Torres Straits pilot, died sud denly at Thursday Island, on April 4.

He had been in the pilot service for the past 11 years. During the war, Captain Bartram served on H.M.A.S.

Encounter, and also on the E. and A. liner, Eastern, which carried troops to New Guinea at the outbreak of the war.

Mr. Lewis Armstrong, general man ager of Messrs. Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., will leave Sydney this month on a visit to Europe.

Mr. E. W. P. Chinnery, Government Anthropologist in New Guinea, has re turned to the Territory.

Brigadier-General E. A. Wisdom, Ad ministrator of the Mandated Territory of New Guineo. returned to Rabaul by the Montoro at the end of March, af ter an official visit to Canberra.

Mr. G. W. Gutteridge, of the B.N.G.

Trading Co., Port Moresby, has been appointed to the vacant seat in the Papuan Legislative Council. The seat was formerly held by Mr. N. G. Arm strong, Manager of the Bank of New South Wales, Port Moresby.