Accident
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Mr. P. S. Allen In
Many Pacific Islands residents will learn with regret of the serious accident which befel Mr. Percy S. Allen, of “Syd ney Morning Herald” staff, and who for many years was editor of “Stewart’s Handbook of the Pacific.” A motor coach in which Mr. and Mrs. Allen were travelling to Melbourne overturned. Mrs.
Allen was killed instantly, and Mr. Allen was seriously injured. He is now in Gun dagai Hospital, N.S.W., and is recovering.
Mr. Allen had a wide personal knowledge of Polynesia; and his splendid work, in collating Pacific Islands data, made his “Handbook” (up to the time it ceased publication in 1923) one of the standard books of reference.