In and About the Islands

Miss Alice Watson, who for nearly 30 years was connected with the Metho dist Missionary Society in Fiji, passed away last month.

Nurse C. M. Woodings, of Salamo Hospital, Papua, came south on fur lough by the August trip of the Mac dhui.

Rev. Harold Short, a well-known L.M.S. Missionary in Papua, who has spent some 10 years in that Territory, has returned from a trip to England and is at present in Australia.

Brigadier-General Hart, Adminis trator of Western Samoa, recently vis ited the Tokelau Group and American Samoa, in H.M.S. Veronica, an old minesweeping sloop, now attached to the New Zealand section of the Navy.

The Tokelaus are now part of N. Zea land’s Pacific responsibilities and, for administration purposes, are tacked on to Samoa.

Mr. W. W. Bird. Inspector of Schools, from New Zealand, has arrived in Fiji, on his annual tour of inspection of Grammar and Public Schools in the Colony. Under an arrangement made between Fiji and New Zealand, the European section of the Fiji education system is under the supervision of the N.Z. Education Department, and New Zealand standards are generally fol lowed, particularly in regard to sec ondary education.

Mr. V. L. Newberry, accompanied by Mrs. Newberry and their three chil dren, arrived in Sydney by the last Macdhui, on holidays. Mr. Newberry is manager of Day Dawn (New Guinea) Ltd., the first company to commence crushing on New Guinea goldfields.

Mr. Howard Ward, of the Societe Chemique du Chrome, New Caledonia, has returned from a visit to the United States.

Mr. Clifford Brown, who has been doing a considerable amount of flying in New Caledonia, has returned to Noumea, from Sydney, with a second aeroplane, which has been christened “la Roussette” by his principals.

Mr. Howard Ross, Noumea, manager of the Nouvelle Compagnie Porestiere Caledonienne, is at present on a visit to Sydney.

Mr. W. J. Tully, field inspector for the Rockefeller Institute, in the Pacific, who has been studying health condi tions in the New Hebrides, arrived in Sydney by the Laperouse, on Septem ber 9, on his way to Fiji.

Mr. L. V. Waterhouse, a technical director of Placer Development Ltd. and Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., has been seriously ill with pneumonia. His many friends in New Guinea will be pleased to learn that he is now well on the road to recovery.