About Islands People.

Mr. P. R. Hinds, a well known figure in Papuan commercial circles, has just severed his connection with the Terri tory by the disposal of his business at Daru and departure to New South Wales, where he intends to reside in future. Mr. Hinds spent nearly twenty years in Papua; he was in the medical department of the Government and later with the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. before starting in business on his own account.

He will be missed, for his generosity and open-heartedness, by many folk in the Territory.

Judge Paul Cruyl, Belgian and neutral judge and Acting-President of the Con dominium Court in the New Hebrides, and Judge E. de J. Carey, the British judge arrived in Sydney by the “Mor inda” on February 14.

The Rev. W. H. Cox, chairman of the New Britain District of the Methodist Mission Society, arrived in Sydney by the “Montoro” on January 4 to repre sent his district at the annual meeting of the Mission Board. He was accom panied by Mrs. Cox.

Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Burt returned to Sydney from Papua by the “Montoro ’ on January 4. Mr. Burt has been Tech nical Instructor at the Methodist Mission, Salamo, for three and a half years.

Judge Ayson, Administrator of the Cook Islands, sailed from Rarotonga for New Zealand by the “Makura” on January 30.

Mr. S. Savage, Registrar of Courts, Rarotonga, sailed by the schooner “Tiare Tapore” on December 24 for Manahiki to fill the position of Resident Agent, which has been vacant since the death of Mr. H. Williams last July. Mr.

Savage is regarded as an authority on native languages and has been working for years on the compilation of a dic tionary of Polynesian words. While stationed at Manahiki, Mr. Savage in tends to expedite this work.

Mr. F. W. Edwards, who was recently appointed Inspector of Police in the Cook Islands Administration, arrived at Rarotonga on December 30.

Mr. J. Cheyne, of the Customs De partment, Thursday Island, has been transferred to Brisbane, and, with his family, sailed in the “Taiping” on January 23.

The Rev. Dr. C. E. Fox, of Pawa School, Ugi, Solomon Islands, who has been in Sydney on furlough, will return to the Solomon Islands this month.

Mr. H. Holland, of the New Guinea Mission, returned from furlough by last “Macdhui.”

Mrs. D. E. Ure (Gwen Milne), of the L.M.S., Papua, is expected in Sydney this month.

Dr. C. J. Nicholas, S.M., Catholic Vicar-Apostolic of Fiji, who has been on a visit to Ireland, France and Rome, left Sydney on February 11 by the

“Monterey” on his return to Fiji. He was accompanied by Rev. Father A.

Buret, of Fiji.

Rev. T. G. Gibson left for Rabaul by last “Macdhui” to relieve the Rev. F. R.

Bishop, who has served with the New Guinea Mission for nine years.

Rev. Thomas McMillan is in Aus tralia on furlough from Tanna, New Hebrides, where he has been working for the Presbyterian Foreign Mission under the John G. Paton Fund.

Messrs. J. G. Nelsson, E. C. Harris and A. Jewell, members of the Legis lative Council of Papua, arrived in Sydney by the “Macdhui” on January 25.

Mr. George Fulton, manager in Aus tralia of Lever Bros., Ltd., and Major Frank Hewitt, the company’s manager in the Solomon Islands, arrived in Suva by the “Mariposa’' on January 20. They are on an inspection visit, after which they will return to Sydney on February 11.

Mr. W. Wise, Commissioner of Works, and Lieut.-Colonel J. S. Gamble, In spector General of Constabulary, have taken office as nominated members of the Legislative Council of Fiji.

Senator H. S. Foll left Sydney for Papua on the “Macdhui” on February 2.

He is accompanied by Mrs. Foll.

Mr. J. G. Nelsson, a Member of the Legislative Council of Papua who re cently visited Sydney, returned to Sama rai by the “Macdhui” on February 2.

Mr. J. A. Todd, B.Sc., left for Moe wehafen by the “Macdhui” on February 2. He has been permitted by the Aus tralian National Research Council to in vestigate sociological problems of the natives of New Britain and expects to be there about 12 months. Mr. Todd graduated at Sydney University in 1931 and has since been doing anthropological research work. His present mission has been made possible by a grant from the Rockefeller Trust.

Dr. and Mrs. Leo Brem, who recently arrived in Sydney from Germany, sailed by the “Macdhui” for New Guinea. Dr.

Brem is a graduate of Wurzburg and Dublin Universities, and Mrs. Brem is a qualified dentist. Both are members of a German society which has placed 300 medical missionaries in foreign lands. They will work with the Sacred Heart Fathers in New Guinea.

The Rev. G. S. Shinkfield, of the Methodist Foreign Mission, arrived in Sydney by the “Monterey” on February 1. With Mrs. Shinkfield, he is returning to England, after 17 years’ work in Western Samoa.

Miss I. Foulcher, of the Methodist Mission, Matavelo, arrived in Sydney from Fiji seeking medical treatment.

Nurse E. Geeves, of Bua Mission Station, and Miss A. Uphill, of Nadroga, are also in Australia.

Mrs. C. E. Gill, of the New Guinea, Mission, and her son David left Bris bane by the “Ormonde” for England on.

January 27.

Mr. N. D. Lewis has resigned his. position as chief accountant of New Guinea Goldfields to take up an appoint ment with a new concern which will commence operations on the Waria, River. With Mrs. Lewis, he arrived in Sydney on a short holiday by last.

“Macdhui.”

Mr. H. Taylour, mining warden at Wau, N.G., and Mrs. Taylour arrived in.

Sydney by the “Macdhui” on January 25.

Captain Eric Chater has joined the flying staff of the New Guinea Airways.

He was recently chief instructor to the Victorian Aero Club and introduced night flying and blind flying instruction, to Australian civil aviation.

Mr. N. Hagen, the well-known mer chant of Noumea, New Caledonia, who had been on a visit to Sydney, left by the last steamer for the French Terri tory.

Mr. F. Robartson, a well-known resi dent of Rabaul, New Guinea, has been appointed to the Lands Department of the Administration, and is at present engaged in field work in the Kavieng District of New Guinea.

Mrs. A. H. Nicholls, accompanied by Miss Nicholls and Miss Rowena Nicholls, were passengers from Vila for Sydney by the last “Morinda.”

Mr. A. L. Grant, who was accom panied by his wife, arrived in Port Moresby on January 20, has taken over the managership of the local branch of the Bank of N.S.W., relieving Mr. N.

Calcutt, who left for Sydney on Feb ruary 9.