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in Torres Straits.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Thursday Is., Sept. 29.

Dr. W. M. Bevington, officer in charge of the Commonwealth Quarantine De partment at Thursday Island, has re cently received his official appointment as District Commissioner of the Boy Scouts in Torres Strait.

At present there are troops on Badu, Darnley, Moa, and Murray Islands, with some others in process of formation. The scoutmasters are European, but the assistant - scout - masters are Torres Strait islanders.

The movement has taken on in the Strait, but one of the difficulties lies in establishing closer association between the troops themselves, owing to the is lands being so widely scattered. How ever the appointment of the new Dis trict Commissioner, who will visit the islands from time to time, will help in the further development of the move ment.

Landing of the High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, Sir Murchison Fletcher, at the Government wharf at Vavau. From left; J. M. Woodbridge (Collector of Customs, Vavau); Havea Tuihaateiho, Governor of Vavau (who was educated in Newington College, Sydney, and is one of the Tongan Nobles); High Commissioner, Sir M. Fletcher-; Hon. Mr. Neil, British Consul Agent in the Tongan Group.

Photo by W. Finau.