About Islands People

Mr. R. W. Robson, Editor of “Pacific Islands Monthly," left by the last Macdhui for Port Moresby. He will join the “Van Rees” there on August 23, and will visit Samarai (August 25), Rabaul (August 27-28), Port Vila (September 3) and Noumea (September 5-7).

Sister Lucy Willoughby, who is station ed at the New Guinea Mission at Dogura, Papua, is in Australia on extended fur lough owing to ill-health. She proposes to return to Papua at the end of August.

Mr. Robert Alke, of the German firm of Messrs. Breckwoldt and Company, arrived in Sydney from New Guinea by the Macd hui on July 31. He has been travelling throughout the Pacific Islands in con nection with his firm’s business since February last. He returned to Hamburg in August by the Bendigo.

Rev. V. H. Sherwin, of the Melanesian Mission, who has been in England for over a year on leave, arrived in Sydney in August He was accompanied by Rev K. P. Fitzgerald, who will go with him to New Guinea. En route to New Guinea they will call at Siota, British Solomon Islands, the headquarters of the Melane sian Mission.

Sister C. Halligan, of Melbourne, has been accepted by the Australian Board of Missions for work in Papua. She will leave for Port Moresby on August 30.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Stewart, Presby terian missionaries of Malo, New Heb rides, who have been spending their fur lough in Australia, returned to New Heb rides in August.

Colonel H. L. Cameron, of New Guinea, arrived in Sydney by the Macdhui on June 19. He is the owner of Djaul Plan tation at Kavieng and is on furlough for the first time in five years.

Rev. A. J. Thompson, and his wife, of the New Guinea Mission at Wanigela, Papua, will leave their station shortly on long furlough. Serious trouble with Mr.

Thompson’s eyesight necessitates imme diate medical attention in Australia.

Mr. Marc T. Greene, the American jour nalist, whose work in Samoa caused some stir there last year, was in Boston, U.S.A., enjoying a summer holiday in June. He intends to remain some little time in U.S.A. before setting forth on his world wanderings again.

Miss Elsie Smith returned to the Indian orphanage conducted by the Methodist Mission at Dilkusha, Fiji, on August 16, after spending her furlough in Victoria.

Mr. J. H. Halligan, of the Prime Minis ter’s Department, Canberra, accompanied Mr. C. T. P. Ulm in his monoplane “Faith in Australia,” on his recent flight to Papua and New Guinea. Leaving Sydney on July 24, they arrived back in Mascot on August T, after landing mails at Port Moresby and Lae.

Mr. Percy W. Faddy, of Sigatoka, Fiji, died at his home at Vunasalu, after a severe attack of dengue fever early in June. Born in Australia in 1880, he went to Fiji in 1903 and for some years was engaged in planting and storekeeping.

From 1923 to 1929 he represented the Western Division in the Legislative Council of Fiji and did much good work for his electorate. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ella Faddy.

Mr. Roland Green, a member of the Australian Parliament, during his recent visit to the Far East, made a close study of two subjects of considerable interest to Pacific Islands residents. He investi gated, as far as he could, the possibilities connected with America’s decision to grant independence to the Philippines —a matter that is arousing keen interest in Japan—and he also studied the effect on primary production in Java of Holland’s adherence to the gold standard. Mr.

Green said that the effect of the gold standard on Javanese primary production was lamentable —the native producers, particularly the labourers, being now in almost a poverty-stricken condition.

Miss Beatrice Grimshaw, the well known novelist of the South Seas, is leaving Papua shortly for a lengthy stay in England. With Miss Grimshaw will leave her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Grimshaw. Mr. Grim shaw has almost completed his twenty years’ service, and is leaving the Terri tory, not to return.

Mr. P. C. Hubbard, Chief Judicial Com missioner of the Solomon Islands, arrived in Sydney from Tulagi early in August, en route to New Zealand, on six months’ furlough. Until recently Mr. Hubbard was Acting Judge of the New Hebrides Condominium Court, at Vila.

Mr. W. H. Miller, a district officer in the Solomons Administration, arrived in Syd ney on July 30 by the Jervis Bay after furlough in England.

Rev. Frank L. Nunn and his wife, of the Methodist Mission in the Indian dis trict of Lautoka, Fiji, returned to Suva by the Monterey on June 27. They had been in Victoria on furlough.

Rev. W. A. Dickie and Rev. J. N. Gilbert, of England, left Sydney for the Melanesian Mission station at Siota, British Solomon Islands, by the Malaita on June 30.

Mr. W. M. Cochrane, who has charge of the medical section of Messrs. W. R. Car penter and Co., returned to Sydney on June 18, after a visit to the East.

Mrs. S. H. Chance and her two children, Lois and Alister, returned by the Macdhui on June 28, to Samarai, Papua, where her husband is Assistant Resident Magistrate.

Mr. B. Chenoweth, accompanied by his wife, returned to the Methodist mission

at Kavieng, New Guinea, by the Montoro on June 7.

Mr. Gideon Murray (Viscount Elibank), who was assistant private secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Papua (Sir William MacGregor) at the end of last century, has written an autobiography of his varied and adventurous career in Papua and other parts of the world. The volume is entitled “A Man’s Life—Reflec

tions and Reminiscences of Experiences in Many Lands,” and in one chapter deals in some length with Mr. Murray’s adven tures with the punitive expedition against the cannibal natives who murdered Rev.

Chalmers and Rev. Tomkins in March, 1901, at Dopima, Papua.

Miss Lilian Caswell, who is on the staff of the New Guinea Mission at Dogura, Papua, returned to her station by the Macdhui from Sydney on June 28.

Rev. R. C. G. Page, of Tongabatu, Ton gan Islands, left Sydney on June 15 by the Wanganella for New Zealand, where he transhipped to a cargo vessel and con tinued on to Tonga. He is the President of the Methodist Tonga Conference.

Miss Debbage, missionary of the Angli can Diocese of Polynesia, recently arrived in Fiji from Australia to take the place of Mrs. E. R. Elder at St. Mary’s School.

Nasea, near Labasa, Fiji.

Miss C. A. Woodings, who has been doing nursing work at the Methodist Sa lamo Hospital, Papua, returned to Sydney by the Montoro at the end of May on account of ill-health.

Miss Dorothy Blake left Brisbane, Queensland, by the Macdhui on her re turn to Papua on June 30. She is sta tioned at the N.G. Mission at Doubina, Papua.

Miss Taylor, who arrived in Fiji re cently from England, has taken charge of the Melanesian Mission school at Suva.

Miss J. Barton, who sailed from Sydney for Fiji by the Aorangi on June 21, has been appointed to the Girls’ School of the Methodist Mission Society at Matavela, Fiji.

Miss Dorothy Irvine, of Gili-Gili, Papua, is in Sydney, and is at present staying at “Clifford,” Potts Point.

Captain and Mrs. A. Liston Blyth, well known in Papua, have settled down to a quiet country cottage life amongst the hills of Bundanoon, N.S.W. Mrs. Old ham, of Samarai, and her two children recently paid them a visit.

Mr, and Mrs. Saker, of Misima, Papua, are still at Randwick, and will return as

soon as Mr. Saker’s health permits. Their son Roy has already returned to the Territory.

Dr. Mavis Boyt, who is in charge of the Methodist Mission’s hospital for In dian women dnd children at Ba, Fiji, returned to the Colony by the Niagara on July 14.

Rev. G. T. Warren, of the Melanesian Mission at Maravovo, Guadalcanal, B.S.I., arrived in Sydney from the Protectorate by the August Malaita. Mr. Warren has been engaged in mission work in the Solo mons for 21 years.

Mr. William C. Groves, research-fellow in social anthropology of the Australian National Research Council, returned to Australia by the July Macdhui after years’ research into the problems of native sociology in New Guinea. Mr. Groves is

an anthropologist with unusual qualities, insofar that he combines the trained ob servation of the scientific mind with a thoroughly practical outlook on sociolo gical facts, and it is lively that the re sults of his work in the Mandated Terri tory will be highly valued. He will re turn in due course to the teaching pro fession in Victoria.

Mr. Robert Boyd, O.B.E., formerly Chairman of the Native Lands Commis sion in Fiji, died at his home in Auck land on July 16. Mr. Boyd has been living in retirement since 1928. He was born in Glasgow in 1864; went to Fiji as ac countant to the sugar company on Mango Island; joined the Government service m 1898; and was at various periods Acting District Commissioner in Lau, Naitisiri and Rewa. He joined the Native Lands Commission in 1912. He was considered one of the foremost authorities on native language and customs in the Colony.

Mr. Arthur Broadbent, of Thursday Island, was seriously ill in the Torres Strait Hospital at the end of July. He is an alderman of the Town Council and a prominent member of the Pearlshellers Association, and the local branch of the Royal Geographical Society.

Dr. H. B. Hethington, chief medical officer in the Solomon Islands, arrived in Sydney by the Malaita on August 4. This is his first furlough for three years, and after staying a short while in Sydney, he will leave for America, where he will de vote the remainder of his year’s furlough to post-graduate work in public health.

Rev. R. V. Grant and his wife, of the Methodist Mission station at Cape Pearson Papua, returned to the Territory on August 9, by the Macdhui. They have been on leave in South Australia.

Mr. W. C. Groves.