Personal

CAPTAIN A. S. FITCH, managing director of Papuan Steamships Co., Ltd., returned to Port Moresby by the Decem ber Montoro, after many busy weeks in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. * * * MR. H. O. McGUIGAN, of the wireless staff at Rabaul, New Guinea, re turned by the Nellore, after having spent his furlough in Melbourne, where his relatives reside. * * * MR. F. R. ISOM, manager of the Melanesian Mission’s printing works in Solomon Islands, accompanied by Mrs.

Isom, arrived in Sydney by the last “Mataram” on four months’ furlough.

Mr. Isom, who has been over twenty years in the Solomons, has earned a wide repu tation for the high quality of his Mission printing work. Apart from the skilled help of his wife, he is dependent for assis tance on Solomon Islands natives, whom he trains himself.

Locality plan, to illustrate recent discoveries in New Guinea (see opposite page). The country penetrated lies in the centre of this map, between the Kratke Range and Mount Hagen. This plateau, or valley, is about 120 miles long by some 40 miles across (between the mountain ranges) and is marked “unexplored” on existing maps.