About Islands People

Captain E. A. Mustar has resigned his position as general manager of Guinea Airways Ltd., New Guinea, and has re turned to Australia, where he will con tinue to serve the company in an advisory capacity. The position has been filled by the appointment of Mr. I. H. Grabowsky, who has acted as manager on previous occasions.

Rev. Phillip C. Williams left Sydney by the “Morinda” on October 11 to resume mission work for the Melanesian Mission in New Hebrides. He is the son of Canon H. Williams, of Christchurch, N. Zea land. Commencing mission work in the Condominium in November last, he was ordained by the Bishop of Melanesia last August at the Maravovo mission station, British Solomon Islands.

Professor G. C. Henderson, Emeritus Professor of History of the Adelaide University, arrived in Sydney from Suva, Fiji, on October 5. Since May last, he has been collecting historical information relating to the Colony.

Nurse Muriel Ward, of the Methodist Stewart Hospital, New Britain, is at present at Gladstone, Queensland, on fur lough on account of illness. She will spend two months with her brother at Gladstone before returning to Rabaul.

Mr. Thos. D. Harris, General Manager of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., will arrive in Sydney from New Guinea on Novem ber 20, on his way to America on fur lough.

Mr. Nicholas Hagen, a leading resident of Noumea, spent a week in Sydney at the beginning of October. He brought his company’s handy little steamer, the Ma watta, to Sydney for overhaul, and he returned in her to New Caledonia, leav ing Sydney on October 7.

Mr. Leon L. Williams, group manager of the Kimadar estates, New Ireland, T.N.G., left by the Strathnaver in Sep tember on six months’ furlough, which will be spent mostly at his home in South Devon, England.

Mr. Marc T. Greene, the American journalist, whose articles about Samoa caused some stir last year, has now settled down happily in Boston, U.S.A., and his writings are receiving a good deal of prominence in American newspapers.

Mr. James Norman Hall, well-known American writer, was in the eastern states of America in July, attending to matters in connection with the publication of his books; but his friends complained that his thoughts were constantly in Tahiti, and that he was counting the days to his return to his home there.

Mr. Willy H. Grube, a well-known plan ter of Bowe plantation, Ambrym, New Hebrides, was married in January last to Miss Chrissie Whitford, daughter of the late Capt. Frank Whitford, who was one of the pioneers in the Banks Group, New Hebrides. Mr. Grube was born in Ger many and has been a resident of the New Hebrides for 22 years.

Mr. J. L. Robertson, representative in Fiji for the Queensland Insurance Co., has been transferred to the Vancouver office of the company. He left Suva by the August Waipahi for Sydney, and will pass through Suva again on his way to take up his new appointment.

Dr. H. W. Jack, M.B.E., D.Sc., B.A., newly appointed Director of Agriculture in Fiji in succession to Mr A. C. Barnes, who was transferred to Jamaica last year, arrived in Suva by the Rotorua on Sep tember 9. Dr. Jack was formerly econo mic botanist to the Department of Agri culture in Malaya.

Mr. A. H. Phillips, Assistant Director of Education in Fiji, who was recently awarded a Rockefeller scholarship, left Suva for the United States by the Mon terey on August 28.

Dr. Peter H. Buck arrived in Tahiti from Honolulu on the Makura in August and proceeded almost immediately to the Tuamotu Archipelago on the schooner Moana. Dr. Buck joined other members of the Bishop Museum Mangareva Expe dition at Takoto Island, and is now en gaged in -making an ethnological survey of several islands of the Tuamotus, the Gambier Group, and the Austral Group.

He is the author of several important ethnological works on the Cook Islands.

Dr. Buck is expected back in Tahiti to wards the end of the year, and probably will visit Rarotonga before returning to his headquarters in Hawaii.