About Islands People

Miss Patience Rowe, B.A., Th.L., of Labasa, Fiji, who had been in Bundaberg and Brisbane on furlough, left Queens land on February 18 to return to her mis sion station.

Mr. T. J. Shepherd and Mr. J. Victor, Victorian mining engineers, left Mel bourne for Suva by the Mariposa on March 2. On behalf of the Australian Prospecting Co. N.L., they will prospect several gold-bearing areas in Fiji.

Mr. C. Thebon, mining, engineer for Pioneer Goldmining Syndicate N.L., de parted for the Solomon Islands from Sydney by the Malaita on March 9. In January last he left Sydney for Guadal canal to examine an auriferous deposit there. While in the Protectorate, he was laid up with dysentery and was ordered back to Sydney for treatment.

He has now returned to S.I. to carry out further investigations for six weeks on Guadalcanal.

Mr. E. C. Carr arrived recently in Papua to collect specimens of plant life for the British Museum. He left Pt.

Moresby in February for Kanosia and the western districts, where he com menced his collections.

Sir Maynard Hedstrom, of Suva, has been appointed to the boards of Koroere Gold N.L. and Loloma Gold Mines N.L.

He is a director of Messrs. Morris Hed strom Ltd., and a member of the Execu tive and Legislative Councils of Fiji.

Mr. S. Elliott Smith, Patrol Officer in the Papuan Administration, who has been stationed for some time at loma, is at present on leave. In February, he was spending a quiet holiday with relatives at Bathurst, N.S.W.

Mr. W. E. Grose, of Kavieng, New Ireland, who has been visiting Sydney, sailed by the Orontes on March 13 for the Far East. He will return to Rabaul in June.

Mr. N. Hagen, well-known merchant and ship-owner of Noumea, who has been spending a few days in Brisbane and Sydney, will leave for New Caledonia before the end of the month.

Mr. Dermott Lane, son of the late Dr.

R. M. Lane, of Melbourne, and Mrs. H.

M. Lane, of Manly, sailed for Edie Creek by the Macdhui on March 14.

Prior to leaving Sydney, he announced his engagement to Miss Anne D’Arcy, of Newcastle.

Pastor A. G. Stewart, of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission, left by the March Macdhui to visit the St. Mathias Group, in New Guinea, and the Ramu-Purari section of the Morobe goldfield. He will return to Sydney in May.

Mr. L. Williams, of the staff of Messrs.

Burns Philp (S.S.) Co. Ltd., at Ma kambo, Solomon Islands, has been trans ferred to Salamaua, in the Mandated Ter ritory of New Guinea.

Mr. T. H. Downs and his wife, of the Solomon Islands, are at present spending their furlough at Mittagong, New South Wales.

Right Rev. Walter H. Baddeley, M.A., Bishop of Melanesia, arrived in Sydney via Brisbane on March 12. He addressed meetings of the Australian Board of Missions, and left for Perth on March 17.

He will return to Sydney, after visiting Adelaide and Melbourne, and depart for the Solomon Islands by the Malaita on April 18. Bishop Baddeley who, before going to the South Seas, was Vicar at South Bank, England, had a very dis tinguished war record, being awarded the M.C. and D.S.O.

Mr. Charles Lewaid, of Kalbar, Queens land, left Brisbane for New Guinea early in February. He proceeded to Madang, where he will do mission work for the Lutheran Church.

Mr. Frank Stock, postmaster of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, left Sydney by the Ballarat on March 6, for furlough in England.

Miss Margaret Carvers, who has been working for the Melanesian Mission for two years, returned to Raga station in the New Hebrides by the Morinda on February 14.