About Islands People

Mr. J. Johnston, an old resident of Apia, died on February 11 after a long illness.

He formerly was in the service of the old-time “German Firm,,” and latterly was employed by the Administration.

Brother Beda Marx and Brother J. Wassenberg, of the Mission of the Divine Word, Alexishafen, New Guinea, arrived by the Macdhui in Sydney on March 27. Brother Marx has been in New Guinea for 27 years, with only an occasional visit to Australia. They will both return to Alexi shafen.

Major M. Kinlock, representative of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., at Salamaua, ar rived in Sydney in March by the Macdhui, accompanied by his wife.

Dr. W. M. Bevington, formerly port medical officer at Thursday Island, and Mrs. Bevington, arrived in Sydney by the Taiping on March 29.

Major F. R. Hewitt, manager for Lever Pacific Plantations Ltd. in the Solomon Islands, arrived in Sydney by the Malaita at the end of March, and went on to Suva, on business connected with his firm.

Mr. F. R. Isom, printer at the Melane sian Mission Press, Solomon Islands, with Mrs. Isom and their infant daughter, re turned to the Solomons from furlough this month. The new infant was baptised in St. James Church, Sydney, on April 5 by Dr. Baddeley, Bishop of Melanesia, who had arrived in Sydney from the Solomon Islands a couple of days before.

Rev. H. J. Nind, of North Malo, Solo mon Islands, who has been a missionary in the Pacific for 35 years, arrived in Sydney on April 1 and went immediately into St. Luke’s Hospital for treatment.

He probably will retire from mission work and return to England.

Rev. G. H. West, an Anglican missionary from the Santa Cruz Group, arrived in Sydney by the Malaita on April 1 on fur lough, and proceeded to New Zealand. Mr.

West has served in the Islands mission field for 21 years.

Rev. W, B. Seaton, who has had charge of the mission school at Maravovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands, is in Australia on fur lough, and is at present in Goulburn,

N.S.W.

Dr. and Mrs. F. A. McPherson, from the Melanesian Mission Hospital at North

Malo, Solomon Islands, arrived in Sydney on furlough by the last Malaita.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Barham, Seventh Day Adventist missionaries, who have been in Sydney on furlough from the Solomon Islands, returned to the S.D.A. headquar ters in that group by the Malaita on April 7.

Pastor W. G. Turner, Chairman of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission Board in Australasia, will leave Sydney by the La Perouse for Noumea, New Caledonia, and the New Hebrides on April 26. He will be accompanied by Pastor H. E.

Piper, of New Zealand, and Mr. Hopkins, of Queensland.

Pastor and Mrs. S. W. Carr, S.D.A. mis sionaries of Naquia, Fiji, who have been in Australia on furlough, returned to Fiji in April. They have gone to the Bure sala Training School at Ovalau.

Pastor W. J. Westerman, Vice-president of the Australasian Union Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, left Sydney for New Guinea by the Macdhui on April 5.

He met Pastor A. G. Stewart at Port Moresby, and together they made an ex tended tour of the Mandated Territory.

Captain A. Tramoni, who was formerly in command of the Messageries Maritimes Islands steamer Laperouse, has replaced Captain Caboufigue in command of the M.M. motor vessel Eridan.

Mr. W. C. Groves, who has spent sev eral months on anthropological work at Tabar Island, off the coast of New Ire land, and who since has been in Rabaul, preparatory to returning to Melbourne, has now had his leave extended by the Victorian Department of Education in order that he may spend another six months on anthropology in New Guinea.

He has gone to Finchshafen, at the east ern end of the mainland of New Guinea.

Miss D. Lucas, Methodist Mission worker among the Fijian girls at Levuka, Fiji, left Sydney for Suva by the Aorangi on March 1, after short furlough in Aus tralia.

Rev. H. Robinson, of the Methodist Church of N.S.W., has left Sydney for Rossel Island, in the Louisiade Group, Papua. He will have no permanent resi dence there, but will live on a small launch, as most of his time will be spent

in travelling to and from the various islands in the group.

Nurse Dorothy Beale, of Tasmania, will be proceeding to New Guinea shortly to join the staff of the Methodist Mission’s Stewart Hospital, at Vunairima, New Britain.

Rev. A. W. Guy, Methodist missionary of Victoria, has been re-appointed to the Methodist Mission station at Bunama, Papua. He and his wife were at this sta tion two years ago, but returned to Aus tralia to enable their children to study at a Victorian school.

Miss J. Barton, of South Australia, has been appointed to the Girls’ School at Matavelo, Fiji, which is conducted by the Methodist Missionary Society. She will leave Sydney for Suva in June next.

Judge Ayson, Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands, is at present on fur lough in New Zealand, and Mr. S. Savage, late Registrar, is acting as Deputy Com missioner.

Lady Hadfield, of 22 Carlton House Terrace, London, who is accompanied by Mrs. McNeill, arrived in Tahiti in Feb ruary from Barbados, on the S.S. Fran conia, and is staying at the Murnau estab lishment in the Punaavia district. Her Ladyship has since been joined by her nephew, the Comte de Breuserret, who came by way of Australia and New Zea land. The party appear to be enjoying Tahitian life and there seems evefy pros pect that they will remain there for sev eral months.

Commander R. A. H. McConnell, for merly of the Royal Navy and the Royal Indian Marine, who reached Sydney on April 5 by the Strathaird, has been hunt ing game in Kashmir for the last 12 months. He proposes to proceed to Ta hiti, where he will purchase a small schooner, and wander about the southern Pacific for two years. He will then spend 12 months in the northern Pacific.

Major C. B. Joske, a well-known mer chant of Suva, Fiji, arrived in Sydney at the end of March, and since has been en gaged on various matters connected with the trade problems which have arisen be tween Australia and Fiji.