About Islands People

Professor Peter Buck, of Yale Univer sity and the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, having completed his regional survey at Mangareva (Gambler Group), will join the Maunganui, with Mrs. Buck, towards the end of February, and spend some time in his native New Zealand before returning to his home in Hawaii. His proposed trip to the Austral Islands had to be postponed owing to the difficulty of schooner communications.

Mr. Arthur Lewis Milner, who went to New Zealand in 1926 from his home at Wallasey, Cheshire, England, has now

settled down happily in the New Hebri des, where he has charge of the Melan esian Mission ketch “Patteson.”

Dr. H. Ian Hogbin, of the Department of Anthropology, Sydney University, re turned to Sydney by the Van Rees on January 15, after spending a year study ing the natives on volcanic Wogeo Island, off the north coast of New Guinea, near the Dutch border.

Mr. M. J. Louws, who, as chief engineer on the Dutch steamer Van Rees made hundreds of friends in the Pacific Islands, has been transferred to another vessel of the K.P.M. fleet. This kindly, genial officer will be much missed in Western Pacific and Australian ports—he is one of the Netherlands’ most valuable “commercial ambassadors.”

M. Carlo Leoni, a popular business man of New Caledonia, who is the Noumea agent for the Royal Packet Navigation Co. has been appointed Consul for Hol land in the French Colony.

Miss Erima Muir arrived in Sydney from Vila, New Hebrides, by the Morinda on January 21, She was on her way to New Zealand on leave from the Mela nesian Mission school at Torgil, Banks Islands.

Rev. John W. Dixon, Methodist mis sionary of Salamo, Papua, arrived in Sydney recently. At the end of January he was doing deputation work in New South Wales.

Professor MacMillan Brown, Chancel lor of the University of New Zealand, who was a famous writer on Polynesian history, died recently. He left some £70,000, and his will provides for the establishment of a school of Pacific Islands studies at Canterbury University College, New Zealand, for the observation and study of peoples and racial move ments in the Pacific, and for the training of New Zealanders in the administration of Pacific territories. Most of the resi due of the estate reverts to the Canter bury College University.

Mr. Henry Dexter, late of Milne Bay, Papua, writes cheerily from Stubb Hill House, Iping, Midhurst, Sussex, where he arrived in time to enjoy a snowbound English Christmas. He has been wel comed home with open arms by the row ing and yachting men of Southsea and Portsmouth, with whom he was persona grata 25 years ago. A book on his Papuan experiences will see daylight in 1935.

Mr. Eric Ramsden, Sydney magazine writer, after a stay with Mr. Charles Nordhoff at Punauuia, Tahiti, recently travelled by schooner around the Lee ward Group, Huahine, Raiatea, Bora Bora, and subsequently visited Moorea.

He is now in New Zealand in search of other material before returning to Aus tralia.

Mr. Frank Stimson, Bishop Museum ethnologist, has returned to Tahiti after seven months’ investigation in the Tua motus Archipelago. He brought back with him some of the best native chants he has yet recorded.

Mr. F. A. Rowley, one of the latest re cruits for the Melanesian Mission, has almost completed his studies at the House of the Ascension, Goulburn, and will shortly leave for Maiaita, B.S.I, He is a good practical type of young Englishman, and comqs from Prestwick, Lancashire.

Rev. and Mrs. E. M. Tuckett, of Pini qidu, New Britain, returned to Australia recently, after serving since May last with

Mr. A. L. Milner.

the Methodist Mission. Mrs. Tuckett has had a serious breakdown in health, and until she recovers sufficiently her hus band will remain with her in Adelaide.

Rev. H. V. C. Reynolds and Miss A. E.

Samuels, of New Zealand, arrived in Sydney in February en route to the Solo mon Islands, for work with the Melan esian Mission.

Rev. Arthur G. Adamson, Principal of Davuilevu College, Fiji, left Melbourne in February by the s.s. Toulouse on a visit to England.

Mr. George Fulton, chairman and managing director of Lever’s Pacific Plantations Pty. Ltd., will retire from the company at the end of March and will leave for England in April. Mr.

W. D. Mackenzie, chairman of Lever Bros., Ltd., will now take over the chairmanship of Lever’s Pacific Plan tations, Ltd.

Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Stork, of Fiji, were staying with their daughter Monica at Darlinghurst, Sydney in February on a holiday visit to Australia. Mr. Stork is the Colonial Sugar Refining Company’s chief engineer at Labasa.

Mr. Enoch Perkins, general manager in America of the Societe Chemique du Chrome of New Caledonia, left Noumea for Sydney en route to New York by the Laperouse on December 23. For several months he has been inspecting the com pany’s mine at Tiebaghi, on the north west coast of New Caledonia.