About Islands People

Mr. E. W. P. Chinnery, who is head of the District Service in New Guinea and who has been sent to Geneva as Austra lia’s representative before the Mandates Commission, will spend a month in the Colonial Office, London, studying the British methods of Tropical Administra tion, before he returns to New Guinea.

Captain F. C. Rennels, master of the auxiliary schooner Maclaren King, which carries mails and stores to Anglican mis sion stations on the north-east coast of Papua, arrived in Sydney by the Macdhui on February 14. Captain Rennels is ac companied by his wife, who was engaged in mission work at Samarai for several years, and his four-year-old daughter Betsy.

Major E. B. Ayris, instructor to the Native Constabulary in Rabaul, is now on furlough in Tasmania, where he is staying with Rev. T. J. Gibson at Long ford. Rev. T. J. Gibson spent most of 1933 as locum tenens at Rabaul, where he was much beloved and esteemed.

Sir Murchison Fletcher, Governor of Giji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, returned to Fiji from Sydney by the Aorangi, which sailed on March 1.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Isom, of the Melanesian Mission Press, Guadalcanar, British Solomon Islands, who are on fur lough in Sydney, will return to the Solo mon Islands by the Malaita on April 5.

Their many friends will be delighted to learn that a daughter, Margaret Mary, was born to them on February 26, at the War Memorial Hospital, Waverley, N.S.W.

Mr. Fred. Turnbull, storekeeper from Nauru Island, who was a passenger on the Nauru Chief, which arrived at Port Kembla, N.S.W., on February 20, had to be taken to Sydney Hospital immediately as he was seriously ill.

Mrs. G. E. Drayton, wife of the late Pilot Drayton, of New Guinea, returned to Sydney early in February after spend ing seven months in New Zealand. She and her young son Peter are now living at Neutral Bay.

Captain C. R. Pinney, Administrator of Norfolk Island, arrived in Sydney by the Morinda on February 26.

Mr. P. Cruyl, President of the Joint Court at Vila, New Hebrides, arrived in Sydney by the Morinda in February on a holiday visit.

Mr. A. de J. Carey, the British Judge of the Condominium, arrived in Sydney by the February Morinda, on furlough.

Pastor A. G. Stewart, vice-president of the Seventh Day Union Conference for Islands Missions, leaves Sydney by this Montoro, to spend two months in Papua and New Guinea.

Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Campbell, Seventh Day Adventist missionaries in the Pacific Islands, arrived in Sydney by the last Malaita. Mrs. Campbell will remain for several months in New Zealand while Mr. Campbell spends his furlough in an educational trip to Canada, England, Palestine and Italy.

Mr. Raymond Reye, who is a Seventh Day missionary in Samoa, arrived in Sydney recently on furlough. He was accompanied by Mrs. Reye, who is a native of New South Wales, and they will spend about twelve months in Aus tralia. Pastor Reye is notable as being a master of three languages—English, German and Samoan.

Mr. and Mrs. T. Evans, with their three children—Yvonne, Jacqueline and Lola— arrived recently in Sydney from Rabaul, on a holiday excursion. They have taken a flat at Bondi.

Mrs. Chatterton, of Kapsu Plantation, New Guinea, is staying with her mother, Mrs. K. Gill, who recently returned from an extended tour of Europe and is now to be found in a flat at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. McNulty, of the Solomon Islands, have returned home after spending four months touring New South Wales. When staying with Mrs.

McNulty’s mother, Mrs. R. Steel, at Dee Why, the Island visitors enjoyed the cool surf. Up North the sea is very warm, and true to tradition, very salty.

Little Pam Aumuller, who is almost six years, is staying with her sister at “Ku yong,” Moss Vale. Not many children fall in love with school at first sight, but Pam is an unusual child; so her mother left Pam with her sister, till they return to Samarai early in April.

Mrs. E. A. Oldham, of Samarai, Papua, and her two small daughters, are guests at St. Anne’s, Bondi, Sydney. When Mrs.

Oldham returns to the tropics her chil dren will be left at Shirley Ladies’ Col lege.

Mrs. J. Turner, of Samarai, is also stay ing at St. Anne’s, Bondi. She is accom panied by her son, who has just left Newington College.

Miss Margaret Mullen, of Potts Point, Sydney, sailed by the Malaita for the Solomon Islands, where she is to be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ken. Dalrymple Hay for several months.

Mrs. D. Waugh, of Rabaul, will shortly leave for her home. Since last Novem ber, Mrs. Waugh and her three daugh ters, Phyllis, Iris and Jane, have been on furlough in Sydney. Mrs. Waugh, Mrs. Gill and Mrs. Chatterton, all from New Guinea, and Mrs. J. S. Bunny and Mrs. J. D. Sedgers, who also have their homes in the Islands, have often been seen together dining and chatting over the latest Northern news.

Captain and Mrs. “Bunny” Hammond arrived recently in Sydney from New Guinea, on three months’ leave.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Whitton, whose wed ding took place at St. Stephens, Phillip Street, Sydney, on March 6, will spend

some time in Sydney before returning to Samarai, New Guinea, where they will make their home. The bride was for merly Miss Belle Clark, daughter of the late Mr. P. J. Clark and Mrs. Clark, of Bannerman Street, Cremorne.

Mr. A. J. Samson, who has been a resi dent of New Guinea for eight years, dur ing seven of which he was in the New Guinea Administration, has resigned from the service. He recently was married in Sydney and has bought an orchard at Kurrajong, New South Wales, where he and his wife will reside.

Mr. M. B. Allen, formerly a member of the Royal Australian Air Force, and until recently the instructor of the Perth Aero Club, is proceeding to New Guinea, where he will occupy the position of official rep resentative of the civil aviation branch of the Defence Department, with head quarters at Lae.

Mr. and Mrs. J. C. M. Scott, of Mak ambo, British Solomon Islands, are spending a holiday in Sydney, and are staying at Cremorne.