About Islands People

Lady Murray, wife of the Lieutenant- Governor of Papua, who has been visiting Australia, and has spent several weeks at Government House, Canberra, as the guest of Lady Isaacs (wife of the Gover nor-General of Australia), intends to return to Port Moresby in April.

Mr. Adolphus Unger, of New Caledonia, died at Noumea at the age of 77, on April 3. Born in Melbourne and educated at Sydney Grammar School, he went to the French colony and set up business as a general merchant in Noumea. Later he became a naturalised French citizen and was appointed a member of the Council General. Mr. Unger had been elected to the Legion of Honour for his valuable ser vices in the community.

Mr. A. O. Mackenzie, general manager in Fiji for Messrs. Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., sailed from Sydney for Suva by the Monterey on April 3, after a business visit to Australia.

Mr. Noel Vernon McKenna, M.D., M.R.C.P., of Wau, New Guinea, was mar ried at St. John’s Church, Darlinghurst, Sydney, on March 22, to Miss Nancy Sydney Acraman, of South Australia.

Rev. Richard Godfrey, Archdeacon of Southern Melanesia since 1924, who ar rived in Sydney recently to seek expert ocular attention, has retired from the

Melanesian Mission field, as a return to the tropics might permanently impair his weakened eyesight. Joining the mission from New Zealand in 1918, Mr. Godfrey served as a district priest in New Heb rides for several years. Later, he was in charge of the Native Teachers’ Train ing College on Aoba Island, Mr. A. C. Hall, Assistant Resident Magistrate of the Papuan Public Service, arrived in Australia on extended leave from Port Moresby by the Van Rees on March 19.

Miss Erima Muir departed from Sydney by the Morinda at the end of March for the school at Torgil, New Hebrides, con ducted by the Melanesian Mission.

Mr. Raymond Hill, a young New Zea lander, sailed from Sydney by the Malaita on March 9 for work with the Melanesian Mission at Maravovo, Solomon Islands.

Mr. J. P. Blaikie Webster, the new chair man of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., is to sail for London this month. He expects to visit Australia and New Guinea again in September or October.

Rev. Alfred E. Teall left Sydney with his wife for New Hebrides by the Morinda on March 28. They had been on furlough in England, and returned to do further work for the Melanesian Mission at Vureas School, Banks Islands.

Rev. Harry V. C. Reynolds, a new re cruit for the Melanesian Mission, left Sydney at the end of March for the Native College at Lolowai, Aoba, New Hebrides.

Mr. G. E. Aumuller, manager at Samarai of Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co.’s store, arrived in Sydney in March from Papua, on furlough. During his absence, Mr.

Craig will have charge of B.P. affairs at Samarai.

Miss Ellen Fagen has returned to the Melanesian Mission’s station at Raga, New Hebrides, after furlough spent In South Australia.

Mr. W. J. Lambden, relieving Resident Magistrate at Port Moresby, Papua, is at present in Australia on long leave.

Dr. Temple Utley died on April 2 at Suva, Fiji, as the result of blood poison ing caused through a scratch incurred during his professional duties. In Sep tember, 1930, he left England for the South Seas in his 10-tons yacht Inyala, accom panied by his wife and several friends.

After a leisurely voyage—nine months being spent in French Oceania—the party arrived in Suva in 1933.

Hon. Geoffrey Pinchot, and Mrs. Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., who have been staying in Tahiti for the past month, re cently chartered the schooner Gisborne for some fishing among the Leeward Group islands. They were accompanied on their fishing trip by Messrs. J. N. Hall and C. B. Nordhoff, of Tahiti. Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot will return to America by the April Maunganui.

Pastor W. G. Turner, President of the Australasian Union Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, left Sydney by the Montoro on April 10. He intends to visit S.D.A, mission stations in Papua and then go on to Rabaul, New Guinea, to join Pastor A. G. Stewart. From Sala maua they will fly inland to visit the new S.D.A. mission station recently established in the Ramu-Purari area.

Mrs. J. G. Nelsson, wife of Mr. Gus Nelsson, nominated member of the Legis lative Council of Papua, returned to her home on Woodlark Island, Papua, by the Montoro on April 10.

Rev. Dontenwill, missionary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, returned to Yule Island, Papua, by the April Montoro after furlough in Australia.

Mrs. F. O. Greenwood, wife of the well-known partner of Messrs. Green wood and Laws, Ltd., of Rabaul, New Guinea, returned to New Britain with her small daughter by the Montoro early in April.

Pastor N. A. Ferris, of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission at Guadalcanal, Solo mon Islands, who has been in Australia on leave for eight months, will return to S.I. by the Malaita on April 18.

Colonel H. L. Cameron, of Djaul Plan tation, Kavieng, T.N.G., was a passenger for New Guinea by the April Montoro.

Mr. W. Middleton, of Kulili Plantation, Madang, New Guinea, departed from Sydney by the Montoro on April 10. He disembarked at Brisbane and will return to New Guinea by the Macdhui in May.

Mr. A. G. Campbell, Fiji Prospecting Co.’s mining engineer, returned to Mel bourne from Suva by the Monterey on March 29. Mr. Campbell secured two properties, from which ore assays are at present being made.

Mr. T. J. Rogers and Dr. A. E. Frost, directors of East Reefs (Bendigo) N.L., left Sydney for Fiji by the Monterey on April 3. They will inspect the area of 700 acres recently taken up by their representative at Tavua.

Mr. H. N. Murray, manager of the Levuka branch of Messrs. Morris, Hed strom Ltd., was married at Levuka on March 2 to Miss Jean Weir, of Glen field, New Zealand.

Mr. A. L. Joubert, acting general manager of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., arrived in Sydney from Bulolo, New Guinea, by the Montoro early in April.

Mr. C. Beckett, the popular and highly respected officer in charge of Amalga mated Wireless (A/sia) Ltd., at Wau, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney by the Montoro in April,on holiday leave.

Miss Beatrice Grimshaw, the wellknown author, whose home for many years was in Papua, is at present living among the mountains at Oberon, N.S.W., where she is the guest of her brother, Mr. Ramsay Grimshaw.

Mr. W. Gill, who is well-known in eastern Papua has bought Loani Planta tion near Samarai (rubber and coconuts) from the Hon. A. H. Bunting and it is expected that he will enter into occupa tion in April.

Miss Estelle Field, a New Zealand nurse of the Melanesian Mission’s Hospital at Malaita, Solomon Is., who returned to her work in March, after furlough in N.Z. and Australia

Mrs. H. P. Wilkins, of Salamaua, New Guinea, died at Rabaul on March 4, after a grave illness. Born in 1904 in Vienna, she later travelled extensively in various parts of the world. Arriving in New Guinea early in 1930, she was married to Mr. Wilkins shortly afterwards.