About Islands People

Mr. J. M. Hedstrom, son of Sir May nard Hedstrom, of Suva, Fiji, left Sydney by the Mariposa for Fiji on May 30. Mr.

Hedstrom was admitted as a barrister of the Victorian Supreme Court shortly be fore he left for Fiji. He had a distinguish ed career at the Melbourne University, where he won the Debating Cup and gained prominence in the sports of hockey and boxing, for which he was awarded a Blue.

Rev. C. M. Churchward, with his wife and family, returned to Fiji on the Mari posa on May 30. He is stationed at the Methodist Church, Levuka, but has been in Australia since last August, on sick leave.

Mr. Desmond Dickson, a young resident of Ouyen, Victoria, has been selected by Mr. Alfred Guthman to accompany him to New Guinea shortly in his eight-tons yacht, Pacific Moon. They will study native tribes and their customs on behalf of the National Museum of Paris, France.

Rev. A. C. Cato, M.A., accompanied by his wife, arrived in Sydney from Mel bourne by the Mariposa on May 28, en route to Fiji. He is on his way to the Methodist Teachers’ College at Davuilevu, Fiji.

Captain O. C. Dowling, of the United States Navy Department, who was recent ly appointed Governor of American Samoa, arrived at Pago Pago in April by the Monterey. Captain G. B. Landenberger, who was the former Governor, has return ed to the United States, for duty at the U.S. Navy Yard, Philadelphia.

Nurse H. M. Purnell, of the Methodist Mission hospital at Salamo, Papua, re turned by the Macdhui on May 17. She had been on furlough in Victoria, where she took a special course of infant welfare which will aid her in her work in Papua.

Miss Dorothy Beale, who is a certifi cated nurse, left Sydney by the Macdhui during May for the Methodist Mission’s

Stewart Hospital at Vunairima, New Britain, Mr. E. F. Griffin, who has been on an extended visit to New Guinea inspecting gold-mining areas in the Territory, ar rived in Sydney by the Montoro on May Mr. David Alexander Aiken, Managing Director of the Union Steam Ship Co., of New Zealand, died at Wellington, N.Z., on May 22. He joined the staff as office boy in 1883 and during his 50 years of service with the Company he rose to the position of General Manager and finally Managing Director, Mr. Aiken was highly respected and beloved by all the Union Company’s staff, both on shore and sea. He has been succeeded by Mr. N. Falla, of New Zealand, who was, until recently, Manager of the Federal Steamship Line in New Zealand.

Mr. A. Wilson, of Edinburgh, Scotland, arrived in Sydney in May by the Cormorin on his way to the Presbyterian native evangelist training school at Tangoa, in the New Hebrides.

Right Rev. Leonard S. Kempthorne, of Suva, Fiji, Bishop of Polynesia, arrived in Sydney by the Wanganella from New Zealand on May 13. He is en route to Nauru and Ocean Island and, later, will visit the Gilbert and Ellice Islands and Samoa, on H.M.S. Diomede of the New Zealand Navy. The Bishop expects to re turn to Fiji in July.

Captain E. J. C. Stopp, Collector of Customs, Norfolk Island, returned to Nor folk in May after spending his furlough in the New Hebrides. On his return he said that efforts are now being made to stimulate the tourist and commercial trade between New Hebrides and Norfolk Island.

Mr. Herbert Paul St. Julian, I.S.O., died at Neutral Bay, Sydney, on May 19. Mr.

St. Julian went to Fiji from Sydney in 1883 and entered the Fiji Civil Service as a clerk in the Levuka Post Office. Later, he was transferred to Suva and, in 1901, he was appointed Colonial Postmaster of Fiji and held that position until he retired in 1925. For his long and estimable ser vice to the Colony he was decorated with the Imperial Service Order in 1924. From 1913 to 1924 he was a member of the Fiji Legislative Council. He is survived by his wife, eight daughters—two of whom are now living in Suva —and two sons—Mr.

Charles St. Julian, of Suva, and Mr. Fred.

St. Julian, of Canada.

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Greenland arrived by the Macdhui in Port Moresby on May 25. Mr. Greenland has been away from Papua on sick leave in Sydney, where he has been under treatment since November last year.

Mr. D. Ferris, of the S.D.A. Mission at Ambrym, New Hebrides, arrived in Sydney recently from the New Hebrides via Lord Howe Island, where his family reside.

Mr. B. W. Storey, who has been in charge of the Government schooners at Rabaul for some years, has resigned from the position and returned to Australia in order to seek expert medical attention.

Mr. Storey was held in high regard by the Administration of New Guinea and was personally popular in the Territory.

Pastor A. G. Stewart, Vice-president of the Seventh Day Adventist Union, and Mr. R. Adair, of the S.D.A. Missions, left Sydney by the Niagara on May 24 for

Suva, Fiji, to attend a conference of their missionaries in that Colony.

Captain Norman Walter Faddy, of Tai levu, Fiji, died in the Suva War Me morial Hospital on April 19. Captain Faddy was born in New South Wales in 1888, and went to Fiji in 1909 with his brothers, where he entered the ser vice of Henry Marks and Co., at Ba.

Five years later he left Ba and joined his brothers at Sigatoka in a business ven ture. Later he entered the Agricultural Department as an inspector of planta tions. When the Great War broke out he went to England with the Second Fiji Contingent, and entered the King’s Own Rifles. In France, in 1917, he was awarded the Military Cross, and, later, in 1918, he was given a Bar to the Military Cross and promoted from second-lieutenant to captain for “con spicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.”

After the war he returned to Fiji and was for a time the Commandant of the Fiji Defence Force before being ap pointed inspector of produce in the Ag ricultural Department. In 1922 he took over one of the dairy farms at Tailevu under the Returned Soldiers’ Scheme, and lived there until he became seriously ill recently.

Pastor A. G. Stewart, Vice-president of the Seventh Day Adventist Missions, ar rived in Sydney on May 7, on the Mac dhui, after a two months’ tour of Papua and New Guinea. During his tour, Mr.

Stewart visited the primitive Matthias Group, off New Ireland.

Commander Rupert Garsia, Administra tor of Nauru, was married to Miss Doro thea Lloyd at Mossvale, New South Wales, at the end of April. Commander and Mrs.

Garsia left for Nauru last month.

Mr. Marc T. Greene, well-known Ameri can newspaper correspondent, who has been residing in Samoa and Auckland for some time, left New Zealand for America by the Aorangi on May 1. He is on his way to New York and, perhaps, England, but hopes to be back again in the South Seas in about a year’s time.

Mr. F. P. (“Tommy”) O’Dea, Manager of Holden’s Air Transport Services in New Guinea, arrived in Sydney by the Montoro on June 1, to attend a business conference with his directors. He re turned to New Guinea by the same vessel on June 7.

Pastor G. F. Jones, Seventh Day Ad ventist missionary, arrived in Sydney by the Ormonde from London on May 10 He is joining the staff of the S.D.A. mission headquarters in Sydney after many years’ service in New Guinea and Melanesia.

Rev. Patrick O’Reilly, a French Marist priest, arrived in Sydney from England by the Ormonde on May 10. He left by the Malaita on May 19 for the British Solomon Islands, where he will study eth nology.

Rev. W. Anderson, Presbyterian mis sionary at Hog Harbour, Santo, New Hebrides, accompanied by his wife, de parted from Sydney for their mission sta tion on June 7 by the Morinda. They had been on furlough in Australia and New Zealand.

Captain Sir Maxwell Anderson, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Fiji and the Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific, had the title of Knight Bachelor conferred upon him on the occasion of His Majesty’s birthday on June 4.

Mr. R. C. Brett, a well-known Queens land aviator, left Brisbane by the Mac dhui on May 20 to take up service with Holden’s Air Co. on the New Guinea gold fields.

Dr. W. H. MacGranahan, of Western Australia, has been appointed to the post of medical officer to the New Guinea Mis sion. He will leave Sydney for New Guinea by the next Macdhui.

Rev. Walter Hubert Baddeley, Anglican Bishop of Melanesia, arrived in Sydney from New Zealand by the Maunganui on June 2. He is en route to the New Heb rides where he will join the mission ves sel “Southern Cross,” which will trans port him to his headquarters in the Solomon Islands.

Mr. W. R. Carpenter, head of Messrs.

W. R. Carpenter & Co., the big Islands trading and shipping firm, who left for Europe in December last, is expected to return to Sydney in July, Travellers from Rabaul by the Nellore recently included Miss Doris Coles, and Mrs. B. B. Perriman, wife of the manager of Messrs. W. R. Carpenter & Co., Rabaul, who will shortly leave for a comprehen sive tour of the East, after spending a few days in Sydney, After enjoying about two months’ holi day in Australia, Mr. and Mrs. W. Evans returned to Penang, Fiji, by the Niagara.

Mrs. Evans was formerly Miss Heather Bell, a member of one of the best known station families in Australia. Mr. and Mrs. G. Allman also returned to Fiji, to their home at Sigatoka. Major Clifford Southy, who has spent his holiday in Aus tralia, made the Hotel Metropole his head quarters during his stay. He returned to Fiji on the Niagara.

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Mr. Robert Murnau, brother of the film director who produced the picture “Tabu” in Tahiti, and who was shortly afterwards killed in an automobile accident in California, is now in Tahiti in connection with the affairs of his late brother. He has taken up his residence in the Punaavia district.

Messrs. W. W. Crocker, W. F. Leib, Parrott, and Mrs. Bernard W. Ford, prominent Californians, returned to the States on the Maunganui in May after a month’s stay in Tahiti. While there they occupied the residence of Dr. W. J. Williams, at Mataeia, where they not only took up fishing with enthusiasm but entered wholeheartedly into the social activities of the island.

Some of the party at any rate intend returning to Tahiti at an early date.

Captain H. T. Hammond, who was at one time a pilot in New Guinea with Holden’s Air Transport Services, has rejoined the Vacuum Oil Co. as aviation officer for New South Wales.

Mr. John W. Dewhirst, of Suva, Fiji, arrived in Sydney by the Niagara on May 19. Mr. Dewhirst recently retired from the Fiji Government Printing Office, where he had been a compositor for over 25 years.

Hon. A. W. Seymour, Colonial Secretary of Fiji, left Suva for England by the Aorangi on May 4, on ten months’ fur lough. At a meeting of the Executive Council held shortly before his departure, Mr. Seymour was invested with the Order of C.M.G., which had been conferred upon him by the King. Mr. A. A. Wright will act as Colonial Secretary during Mr. Sey mour’s absence.

Brother Richard, of the Marist Brothers Order, died at Suva, Fiji, on April 30, at the age of 75. Born in New Zealand, he entered the Marist Brothers Order in Syd ney at an early age, and in 1905 was ap pointed to the Marist School at Suva.

Some years later he was transferred to Cawaci, on Ovalau Island, and remained there for nine years before returning to Suva. He was an ardent, clever teacher and was well loved by his former pupils.

Mr. Robert Craig, an old Islands pioneer who was well-known in Fiji and New Zea land, died in Auckland recently at the age of 83. Mr. Craig went to Fiji in 1877 and built the first shipyard at Levuka, for Messrs. Henderson and Macfarlane Ltd.

Later, he was engaged in helping to con struct the then small town of Suva, which

had just been selected as the European capital of the Group, following the cession of Fiji to Great Britain in 1874.

Professor G. C. Henderson, Emeritus Professor of History at the Adelaide Uni versity, left Australia by the Niagara in May for Fiji, where he intends to con tinue his research work in connection with Fijian history. Professor Henderson is a well-known authority on matters re lating to Fiji and its early history. He is the author of the “Journal of Thomas Williams of Fiji” in two volumes, and his “Fiji and the Fijians” is a valuable work of reference pertaining to the history and development of the Colony.

Rev. H, Harris, of Wellington, New Zea land, who has been appointed Vicar of the Anglican Church of Suva, arrived in Suva on May 4. He was instituted as Vicar at the Pro-Cathedral on May 8 by Rev. C. W. Whonsbon-Aston, the Bishop’s Commissary.

Lady Murray, wife of the Governor of Papua, returned by the Laurabada to Port Moresby, on May 18 from Samarai, where she had been the guest of Mrs. A. H.

Bunting while His Excellency, Sir Hu bert Murray, was visiting the Government stations of the Eastern and Northern Divisions.

Mr. I. H. Grabowsky, the General Man ager in New Guinea for Messrs. Guinea Airways Ltd., who has been on furlough in Australia for some time, during which he successfully underwent a course of medical treatment, returned to New Guinea with his wife on June 6.

Mr. E. C. Green, of the Department of Agriculture, New Guinea, who has been spending a term at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in the West Indies, is returning to Australia shortly. After a brief stay in Sydney he intends returning to the Mandated Territory.

Mr. Walter L. Hunt, of Fiji, died at the Suva War Memorial Hospital on May 30, at the age of 58. Born in Ceylon, he went to Fiji via Australia in 1883. Later he went to Victoria to be educated and on his return to Fiji he was apprenticed as a planter on the Penang and Koronivia plantations. In 1897, he joined the Coloni al Sugar Refining Co.’s staff and was overseer at Lautoka for a time, before he took over Esivo plantation at Nadi. During the War years he served with the Artillery Section of the A.I.F. on the Western front and when he returned to Fiji he took up a dairy farm in the Tailevu district and remained there until he died. His funeral was attended by officers of the Fiji De fence force and a volley was fired over his grave by a firing squad.