About Islands People

Right Rev. C. J. Nicholas, Titular Bishop of Panopolis and Vicar-Apostolic of Fiji, will visit Australia in December to attend the National Catholic Congress at Melbourne. Rev. Nicholas intends to head a large delegation from Fiji.

Mr. A. Rapadzi, a French mining en gineer, arrived in Sydney by the Eridan from Europe on August 20. He was en route to Noumea after a holiday spent in France.

Rev. J. D. Bodger of the New Guinea Mission staff arrived in Melbourne in Sep

tember from South Australia en route to his station at Dogura, Papua.

Captain G. McLaren arrived in Sydney from Rabaul by the Nellore on August 23.

He brought with him two white opossums from the St. Mathias Group and presented them to the Sydney Zoological Gardens Trust.

Professor Sir Edgeworth David, K.B.E., C.M.G., D.S.O., D.Sc., F.R.S., Australia’s most distinguished scientist and the greatest geologist of the century, died in Sydney after a brief illness on August 28.

He was a high authority on the origin of coral atolls, and led an expedition in the 90’s to Funafuti (Ellice Islands) to test Darwin’s theory of the origin of coral atolls. For his notable work in this, direction he was awarded the Bibsby Medal of the London Geological Society in 1899.

Rev. J. C. Rundle, Methodist mission ary, arrived in Melbourne on August 20after furlough spent in England. Accom panied by his wife, he is returning to Bwaidoga, Papua. Mrs. Rundle was for merly in charge of the Salamo Hospital,.

Papua.

Mr. Arthur Broadbent, of Thursday Island, died at the Torres Strait Hospital early in August, after a brief illness. He was an alderman of the Town Council, and a prominent member of several local societies. The funeral service was held in the Quetta Cathedral, and the obsequies were performed with Masonic rites.

Mr. “Nick” Penglase’s transfer from Rabaul to Salamaua has met with the great approval of the Mandated Territory people. His unassuming manner for such a clever young man is exceedingly refreshing. A book well worth reading could be written about Mr. Penglase’s adventures in New Guinea as an A.D.O., but this worthy officer of the Administration has a horror of journalists in any shape or form and so his brave deeds remain un heralded. Most humans, however, have their weak moments, and it is hoped that the adventurous story of this courageous pioneer will be confided some day to the ear of an aspiring newspaperman. —S.L.

Rev. W. B. Seaton, of the Melanesianr Mission at Maravovo, Guadalcanal, Solo mon Islands, returned to the Protectorate by the Malaita on August 11. While in Australia he spent three months studying at the House of the Ascension, Goulburn,

N.S.W.

Mr. Henry Dexter, of Milne Bay. East ern Papua, has sold his trading business to Mr. Chance, who is a brother of the well-known A.R.M. in the Papuan public service. Mr. Dexter will arrive in Sydney by the November steamer, will spend as few months in Tasmania, and will depart for England, where he will live in future about May next.

Rev. H. J. Hind senior priest at the Melanesian Mission at Pamua, San Christoval British Solomon Islands has retire owing to ill-health. He joined the staff of the Melanesian Mission in 1899.

Mr. Thomas Horne, of Suva, who has been in Australia for health reasons for the past four months, returned to Fiji on the Monterey on August 22. Mr. Horne has now taken over the business previously conducted under the name of Walter Horne & Co., Ltd., Suva.

Rev. and Mrs. George Warren, of the Melanesian mission, sailed from Sydney for England on extended furlough by the Strathnaver on September 8. For 21 years they have been at Maravovo, Guadalcanal Solomon Islands.

Mr. Frank Hambridge, Chairman of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., left Sydney by the Aorangi on August 16 on a business trip to America and England.

Mr. William C. Groves, B.A., Dip. Ed.

F R.A.I., who recently returned to Victoria after completing 2½ years of anthropologioal research in New Guinea is now engaged in the preparation of a monograph, embodying the educational conclusions of his field-work. This work is being carried out under the terms of research grant from the Carnegie Funo of the Australian Council of Educational Research which body will also publish the monograph.