About Inlands People

Dr. E. P. Ellison, who took command of the situation following the hurricane in Rarotonga last month, in the absence of the Commissioner (Judge Ayson), is a New Zealander, who has served as a medical officer in different parts of the Pacific. He comes from well-known South island stock, and married into the famous Taia roa family, of football prowess. Dr. Elli son was himself a footballer of promin ence in his young days.

Professor Peter Buck and Mrs. Buck, who have been staying in Tahiti for some months, arrived in New Zealand by the “Maunganui” en route to their home in Honolulu, where the former will resume his duties at the Bishop Museum.

Hon. Sir Apirana Ngata, until recently Native Minister in New Zealand, is seri ously ill in Rotorua, and has been excused from attendance in Parliament.

Judge Ayson, Resident Commissioner for the Cook Islands, who went to New Zea land on furlough by the last “Makura,” left Wellington hurriedly on his return by the same vessel when he learned the extent of damage sustained by Rarotonga and other islands following the recent hurricane. Consequently, a proposed stay in Rotorua was abandoned.

Dr. N. T. Coulson, a retired American doctor of dentistry, departed from Sydney by the Montoro in February on a visit to Papua and New Guinea. An Englishman by birth, Mr. Coulson was a member of the company on the mission ship Southern Cross, which left Cornwall and sailed the South Seas with Bishop Patteson, who was later murdered by Santa Cruz natives in the Solomon Islands. Having attained the venerable age of 80 years, Dr. Coul son was anxious to visit Norfolk Island and New Hebrides to view again the Islands among which he voyaged as a youth. Unfortunately, however, he was unable to make satisfactory steamer con nections, and was compelled to abandon his plans. On his return from the Man dated Territory in March, he will sail direct for his home in San Francisco.

Mr. Frank Hambridge, the local head of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., returned to Sydney by the Narkunda in February, after visiting New York, London, and Paris.

Mr. D. G. Kennedy and Mr. H. E. Maude, Administrative Officers in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands service, have been appoint ed by the Western Pacific High Commis sion as Native Lands Commissioners for the Ellice Islands and Gilbert Islands, respectively.

Mr. H. Pitman, driller, and Mr. S. C.

Shaw, engineer, arrived in Sydney re cently from South Australia, en route to the New Guinea goldfields, where they will complete a 12 months’ engagement with Guinea Gold N.L. They sailed for the Territory by the Macdhui on January 31.

Mr. E. G. Banks, technical managing director for Australian Mining Trust, Limited, sailed from Melbourne for Fiji

on February 28 to inspect certain areas in which Australian Mining Trust Limi ted is interested. Mr. Banks, who is a director of Loloma Gold Mines, N.L., Fiji, will also visit that company’s property.

Rev. H. S, Perkins, London Missionary Society worker, who had been at Apia, Western Samoa, from 1925 until he left with his wife for England last year, will return to Australia in April next. For six months he will do deputation work in various Australian States and will then sail for Samoa.

Sir Charles Marr, M.P., who is chairman of directors of Mineral Developments, Ltd., returned to Sydney by the Niagara on February 23, after visiting the company’s gold options at Tavua, Fiji. He said there were big possibilities for gold mining in the group.

Rev. Alfred A. Butchart, of the Melane sian Mission at North Mala, S.I., fell down some steps at his home on Malaita in February, and broke his left leg in three places. He was put aboard the Malaita and spent the whole of the voyage South in his bunk, with his leg in plaster. At Sydney he was trans

ferred by ambulance to St. Luke’s Hos pital, Darlinghurst, where he was re ported at the middle of March to be making good progress.

Captain J. L. W. Rawson, skipper of Lever’s Pacific Plantations Ltd. motor vessel Kurimarau, was in Tulagi Hos

pital in February suffering from a septic elbow. He made a quick recovery, how ever, and has now resumed command of the Kurimarau.

Mrs. C. Kendrick, a well-known and popular resident of Papua, left Port Moresby for Queensland by the Montoro on February 7. On arrival in Brisbane she was married on February 19 to Mr.

James Wilton, of Watut, New Guinea.

Mr. F. L. Pinching, travelling medical officer for Lever’s Pacific Plantations, Ltd., in the Solomon Islands, returned to Gavutu by the March Malaita, after furlough in Australia.

Mr. G. Pinchot, late Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, with his wife, arrived in Tahiti in February by the Stella Polaris. Mr. Pinchot is an ardent fisherman and his stay in Tahiti will be devoted chiefly to the pursuit of sword fish and other pelagic monsters for which those waters are noted.

Mr. Georges Simeon, correspondent of the French newspaper “Paris Soir,” arrived in Tahiti by the Ville de Verdun recently and has taken up his residence in the Murnau establishment at Punaavia.

Mr. Simeon is the author of a number of romances, and it is understood that his visit to Tahiti is in connection with another story which is shortly to be put on the French screen.

Mr. Loring Andrews, American writer and author of “The Horizon Chaser” and “Isles of Eden,’’ left for the States last month after over a year’s residence in the Cook Islands. He completed, during his visit, a new novel which will appear under the title of “Nature Boy.” The most accomplished accordion player heard in those parts for many years, Loring Andrews was a popular figure among the Maoris, with whom he lived as one of themselves, becoming an expert underwater fisherman, using diving glasses and a twelve foot spear.

Mrs. P. Hinds, wife of Mr. Percy Hinds, merchant, of Pt. Moresby, and late of Daru, Western Papua, is the proud mother of a baby girl—Elvira Edna— born at Newcastle, N.S.W., on Feb ruary 26.

Mr. Osbert Freeman, aged 59, of Nadu ruloulou, Fiji, died after a sudden col lapse at his home on February 8. Going to Australia from England as a boy, he lived for some years at Bodalla, N.S.W.

About the year 1900, Mr. Freeman went to Fiji and was for many years engaged in sugar-growing at Rewa. Recently, however, he had been farming at Vunitoa.

Mr. J. D. Rogers, who for the past five years was assistant general manager of

the Vacuum Oil Co. in Western Australia, has now taken up the position of N.S.W. assistant general manager for the com pany. Mr. Rogers had a distinguished war record, and was awarded the Mili tary Cross and the Croix de Guerre.

Mr. H. C. Monckton, accompanied by his wife and daughter, returned to Fiji by the Aorangi on February 8, after sev eral months’ furlough. He is a senior District Commissioner of the Colony, and is stationed at Rewa.

Mrs. Leah Levy, of Suva, who had re sided in Fiji since 1913, died at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital on Feb ruary 15, at the age of 75.

Miss F. Johnstone was a passenger to Papua by the last Montoro. On her arri val at Port Moresby, she was met by her fiance, Mr. R. Hunter, manager of the Papuan Courier. Their marriage will take place at Port Moresby in the near future.

Mr. William Broedelow, who was born at Lomaloma, Dau Group, in 1891, died at Suva on February 14, after a short illness.

At an early age he went to Western Samoa, and there resided for many years.

In 1924, he returned to Fiji, and had since been employed in the Fiji Public Works Department. Though a reserved and quiet citizen, Mr. Broedelow was very popular with his large circle of friends.

He is survived by a widow and two children.

Madame Unger, wife of M. Adolphus Unger, Conseillor-General of New Cale donia, died at her home in the Valle de Colon on January 5. She was a member of one of the old families of the Colony, and was loved and respected by many friends.

Rev. D. M. Cattanach arrived in Fiji by the Aorangi on February 8 to replace Rev. T. H. Roseveare at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Suva. Mr. and Mrs. Roseveare departed for New Zea land by the Niagara the following week.

Mis Estelle Field, of the Melanesian Mission hospital on Malaita, Solomon Islands, who has been on short furlough, arrived in Australia early in March after visiting her relatives in New Zealand.

She left Sydney for S.I. by the Malaita on March 9.

Mr. Lucien Sigogne, Consul for Sweden at Papeete, Tahiti, died at Darlinghurst, Sydney, on February 27. During a voyage across the Tasman from Welling ton, New Zealand, to Australia, on board the Monowai, he became seriously ill.

When the Monowai reached Sydney, Mr.

Sigogne was rushed to Wootton private hospital, but there died two days later.