About Islands People.

Rev. G. H. Darke has been appointed by the Bishop of Carpentaria to take up the work of the church in Torres Strait, which has been carried on for seventeen years by Rev. W. H.

MacFarlane. Mr. Darke, who has al ready commenced his new duties, has just come out from England, after serv ing his church two years at Accra, in West Africa.

Mr. Joseph Mitchell, a director of Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., and General Manager of Messrs. Burns, Philp (South Seas) Co., Ltd., returned to Sydney at the end of October from a visit to Europe. After a short stay in Sydney, Mr. Mitchell left again on November 9 for Fiji. He said that his visit to Suva was “merely a business trip”; but it was reported in Sydney that this important representative of the Big Firm would have something in teresting and pointed to say to the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific about conditions in the British Solomon Islands.

Mr. L. A. Lister, Chartered Account ant, and secretary of Holden’s Air Transport Services, Limited, accompan ied by his wife, leaves Sydney on No vember 23 by the m.v. “Macdhui,” to make an inspection of the Company’s operations in New Guinea. Mr. Lister will fly across from Port Moresby, but Mrs. Lister intends to make the round trip and will be rejoined by her hus band at Moresby on the return voyage.

Dr. P. H. Buck, a well-known Maori scholar and scientist, is reported to have been appointed to the staff of Yale Uni versity. He is an authority on the his tory and achievements of the Maori race, of which he is so distinguished a mem ber; and he has been for some years on the staff of the famous Bishop Museum, in Honolulu.

Sir Hubert Murray, Lieutenant-Gov ernor of Papua, is expected in Sydney in December. It is reported that he will visit Norfolk Island, and spend some time there with the Administrator (Cap tain Pinney) and Mrs. Pinney.

Mr. C. W. C. Rich, who has been A.R.M. at Fergusson Island, Eastern Papua, for some time, arrived in Sydney by the “Montoro” at the end of October on a three months’ furlough. Mr. Rich will spend his holiday mostly in Sydney.

He does not know yet in what part of the Territory he will be stationed on his return.

Mr. W. J. Hawthorne, manager for Messrs. T. E. Page and Co., Ltd., Rotu mah, Fiji, was in Sydney during No vember, on a brief furlough.

Mr. J. B. Rand, American Consul in Tahiti, left for, San Francisco on the “Maunganui” in October, for a short va cation. He was replaced there by Mr.

S. Mersman, who has been resident vice-Consul for many years past.

Mr. James Norman Hall, famous aviator, novelist, and co-author with C.

B. Nordhoff, of the successful book, “Mutiny on the Bounty,” left Papeete some weeks ago on the schooner “Pro Patria” for a trip to the Gambier Group and Pitcairn Island in search of infor mation and local colour, which is to be used in connection with another book to be written as a sequel to the “Mutiny”.

The “Pro Patria” is expected back in Tahiti in November.

Mr. N. A. Pyne, well known in the Solomons and New Guinea as purser of the ill-fated “Matunga,” when she was captured by the German raider “Wolf” during the war, and who re cently returned to Sydney from Tonga, where he had been a Collector of Customs for the past twelve years, has become a director and secretary of Panels Ltd., of 9 Bligh Street, Syd ney. This company has plant unique of its kind in Australia for the pro duction of high grade veneers and panels from Australian timbers. Mr Pyne writes that his company is de sirous of importing figured timber of any kind from the Pacific Islands and would welcome communications from Island residents on this subject.

Mr. W. Goodfellow and Mr. F. Shaw Mater, arrived by the liner “Djambi” in Sydney on November 9, and went on to New Guinea. They are collect ing birds and mammal skins for the British Museum of Natural History, South Kensington, London.

Mr. Colin McDonald, Assistant Dis trict Officer in the New Guinea ser vice, left Sydney for Rabaul by the Nankin early in November, on the com pletion of long leave. He visited Europe during his leave and travelled in various Continental countries. He was in Germany when the Nazis took control and he saw many interesting things. As a Britisher, Mr. Mc- Donald, at all times, received the greatest courtesy from the Nazis while he was in Germany.

Mr. Pat Costello, of Suva, Fiji, who is interested in mining and other enter prises, visited Australia during Novem ber, and left for home on the 15th.

Rev. Dr. C. E. C. Gill, M.B., Ch.M., Anglican missionary, who has been sta tioned at Gona, Papua, left Melbourne, Victoria, for England by the “Ormonde” on October 17. He does not intend to return to Papua.

Dr. W. Worger, Assistant Medical Superintendent of the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Fiji, accompanied by his wife, arrived in Suva by the “Niagara” on October 23. They had been on a short visit to New Zealand.

Rev. Junius Wilfred Schomberg, Sup erintendent of St. Paul’s Training Col lege, Moa Island, Torres Strait, and Mrs. Schomberg, arrived in Brisbane on November 6. They left shortly after wards for Tamworth, New South Wales.

Mr. H. H. Page, Government Secre tary, New Guinea, with his wife and four children, arrived in Sydney by the “Nankin” on October 19, on 12 months' furlough. Mr. Page has been Govern ment Secretary at Rabaul since the military occupation was superseded by civil administration in 1921.

Rev. J. D. Bodger, of the New Guinea Mission, Dogura, Papua, left Melbourne for London by the “Ormonde” on Oc tober 17. He is on furlough.

Mr. A. C, Smith, of the Bernice P.

Bishop Museum, Hawaii, arrived in Suva by the “Mariposa” on October 3, and will remain in Fiji until the end of next year. He will make a survey of the tropical plants of the colony and will send specimens to Kew Gardens, England.

Rev. Father Joseph Bertin, of the Marist Missions, returned to Sydney by “Mataram” on October 30, after a five months’ tour of the Marist mission sta tions in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

tures throughout the Territory, is one of Papua’s most progressive and successful business men.

Captain A. S.

Fitch, Managing Director of Pa puan Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby, is at present in Australia on a business visit.

Captain Pitch, who has been in Papua for many years and holds large con trolling interests in various ven-

Mr. Fred R. Isom, who has charge of the Melanesian Mission Press, Mara vovo, Guadalcanar, British Solomon Is lands, and his wife, will arrive in Syd ney by the “Mataram” at the end of November. They will be on furlough.

Rev. R. C. Rudgard, Melanesian mis sionary, of Pawa School, Ugi, Solomon Islands, arrived in Sydney by the “Ma taram” on October 30. He is on leave and will visit New Zealand and Eng land.

Mr. J. A. Carpenter, joint Managing Director of Messrs. W. R. Carpenter & Co., Ltd., returned to Sydney from Ra baul by the “Nankin” on October 19. He had been on a business trip to New Guinea.

Rev. B. S. Fellows, who was a pioneer Methodist missionary in Papua, died recently in Western Australia, at the age of 75. He went to Papua from New Zealand in 1891 and was stationed at Panaeti, where he prepared a vocabu lary and grammar of the Papuan dia lect. He also translated large portions of the Bible into the Papuan language.

After remaining in Papua for 12 years, he was transferred to Queensland.

Mr. R. A. Derrick, of the Methodist Missionary Society, Fiji, arrived in Sydney by the “Aorangi” on November 3. He is in charge of the technical en gineering instruction department at Da vuilevu. He said that the Fijian natives are readily adapting themselves to the use of machinery and that the natives at his mission show marked ability in learning woodwork, electrical engineer ing, and carpentry.

Mr. N. Izod, of Samarai, Papua, who has successfully patented certain ma chinery connected with coconut desic cation, arrived in Sydney on a business visit at the end of October.

Mr. W. R. Carpenter, head of Messrs.

W. R. Carpenter and Co., Ltd., and al lied companies, proposes to leave Syd ney about the end of the year on a business visit to Europe.

Miss Edith Rogers, of Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, sailed by the “Nankin”, early in November for Rabaul, New Guinea. There, she will marry Mr.

Garth Elliston Walker, of the staff of the Central Administration, Rabaul.

Mr. D. Hore-Lacy, of Talasea, New Guinea, accompanied by Mrs. Hore- Lacy, passed through Sydney in Novem ber, on a brief holiday visit to Ceylon.

Mr. Robert Melrose, of the New Guinea Service and recently District Officer at Kavieng, together with Mrs.

Melrose and son, are on a holiday visit to Melbourne. They are the guests of Mrs. E. Cantor, of Florida House, St.

Kilda Road.