“Jock of the Islands”

This is Mr. Jock Cromer, now 75 old, a resident of the Solomon Islands, and known throughout the Central and South Pacific as a recruiter, original “black birder,” trader, planter, and sailor. He has spent 57 years in the Solomon Islands, and men nowadays travel long distances just to listen to his fascinating stories of life as it used to be in “the early days.”

Mr. S. G. C. Knibbs, of Tulagi, has col lected Jock Cromer’s reminiscences in a volume, which he has called “Jock of the Islands,” and which is now in the hands of a London publisher. It will contain illustrations by Mr. Hall, the well-known Sydney photographer.