About Islands People

Dr. J. C. Beaglehole, who did post graduate work at Yale University last year under Professor Peter H. Buck, is now at Puka Puka, in the Northern Cook Group, where he intends spending six months carrying out ethnological research.

Dr. Beaglehole is a graduate of Victoria University College, of Wellington, New Zealand. His recently published volume, “Exporation of the Pacific” has been favourably reviewed in England, America, and Australia.

Professor and Mrs. Peter H. Buck, of the Bishop Museum, returned to Honolulu by the last trip of the Monterey. The pro fessor received a warm welcome in his native New Zealand, especially from his old friends of the Auckland Savage Club, who made him a presentation of an illu minated address. Accompanied by Sir Apirana Ngata, he visited his native Maori people at Urenui, in the Taranaki district, which he always makes a point of doing when re-visiting New Zealand.

Mr. N. A. Pyne, formerly of Tonga, who was driven out of that territory by the depression a couple of years ago, is now doing very well in business in Sydney.

He took over a factory called Panels Ltd.,

producing veneers and panels, and has benefited considerably in the general business recovery in Australia.

Mr. A. E. Lee returned by the Macdhui in May to Bulolo Gold Dredging Co.’s camp, on the Morobe goldfield, New Guinea, after leave in Australia, Mr. F. J. Giles, of the N.G. Public Health Department, arrived in Sydney with his wife on six months’ long leave by the April Montoro from New Guinea.

Rev. George H. West, who has been with the Melanesian Mission since 1913, left Sydney to return to his work at Santa Cruz and the Reef Islands, Solo mons Group, by the Malaita on April 18.

He had been in Australia on short fur lough.

Mr. R. St. George Ryder, formerly man ager of Messrs. Morris Hedstrom’s branch at Devuka, Fiji, has been transferred to the head office at Suva.

Mr. J. H. Curie, world-famous as an author of fascinating travel books, in tends to make an early visit to the New Guinea goldfield, and it is just pos sible that he will tell the fascinating story of that new industry and com munity. He has referred to the activities of the Bulolo Gold Dredging Co., and of Guinea Airways Ltd., as one of the greatest romances of its kind in the world. Mr. Curie, as well as being a writer, is a highly qualified mining en gineer.

Mr. G. H. Murray, Director of Agricul ture in New Guinea, accompanied by Mrs.

Murray, left Sydney by the Mariposa on May 1, for America and Europe, Mr. Mur ray will spend some time in Hawaii, where he will examine the results of the entomological researches carried out un der the auspices of combined sugar planters of Hawaii.

Mr. W. R. Woods, general manager of the Malayta Co., Ltd., Sydney, departed by the Malaita for Solomon Islands on April 18. He will make the round tour, visiting all the Malayta Co.’s branches in the Group.

Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Mason, Mela nesian missionaries at North Mala, Solomon Islands, returned for further work at their station by the April Malaita.

Dr. D. C. M. Macpherson recently re turned to Fiji after an absence of 18 months spent in study and travel in the United States and Great Britain. Dr.

Macpherson is well known in the South Pacific as a Government Medical Officer in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and was awarded a Fellowship by the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Founda tion in 1933. He has now been trans ferred to the Colony of Fiji, where he is presently to take charge of the Central Medical School at Suva.

Mr. M. Crocker, Inspector and Instruc tor of the Department of Agriculture in New Guinea, recently arrived in New South Wales on four months’ furlough.

Mr. H. L. Downing, Assistant District Officer in the New Guinea Administration, left Sydney for Rabaul by the May Macdhui.

Mr. C. O'Sullivan, of New Guinea Gold fields Ltd. staff at Golden Ridges, return ed to New Guinea by the Macdhui on May 2.

Mr. J. Nason Jones, Guinea Gold’s well known prospector and explorer, returned to Papua with his wife by the Macdhui on May 2, after furlough in Australia since January.

Right Rev. Henry Newton, D.D., Bishop of New Guinea, has announced that he will retire from the New Guinea Mission at the end of the year. His Lordship has completed over 30 years of mission work in Papua and New Guinea. He joined the New Guinea Mission staff 16 years ago; and, later, was elected Bishop of Carpentaria. In 1921 he was translated from the Diocese of Carpentaria to be Bishop of New Guinea, and, with head quarters at Samarai, he has served in Papua ever since.

Miss Mollie Hodge, who has charge of the Methodist Girls’ School at Salamo, Papua, returned to Port Moresby by the Macdhui from Sydney on May 2.

Rev. H. T. Shotton, M.A., arrived in Sydney by the Macdhui from Papua on April 16. With his wife and son, he went on to Victoria where they will spend their furlough. After a brief visit to Tas mania, Mr. Shotton will return to the Methodist Mission at Kiriwina, Papua.

Mr. H. Morris Smith, assistant secretary and accountant, and Mr. R. M. Buik, auditor, of Guinea Airways Ltd., left Sydney by the May Macdhui for Papua.

They caught their company’s big Ford passenger ’plane at Port Moresby and flew across to Guinea Airways Ltd’s headquarters at Lae, New Guinea.

Mr. G. M. Rodger, of the Malayta Co.

Ltd., Sydney, left by the Malaita on April 18, for Cape Marsh, Solomon Islands. He will visit all his company’s branches in the group and return to Australia in August.

Mr. Pat Costello, one of the pioneers of the Fiji gold industry, returned to Suva by the Mariposa early in May after a business visit to Melbourne.

Miss Inez E. Foulcher, returned to Fiji by the Niagara on April 26. She is principal of the girls’ school at Matavelo, which is conducted by the Methodist Missionary Society.

Mr. H. B. Jamieson and Mr. H. G. Hyde, directors of Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing Ltd., left Sydney by the Macdhui at the beginning of May for their company’s property near Wau, New Guinea. Mr. M.

Crookshanks, mining engineer, accom panied them to carry out testing opera tions on the Sandy Creek leases.

Dr. L. A. Andrews, accompanied by his wife, arrived in Sydney en route to Europe by the Mariposa from Tonga via Fiji on April 25. He has been assistant Government medical officer at Haapai and, later, Nukualofa for several years, and has now retired on pension. Before going to Tonga, Mr. Andrews was for many years attached to the C.S.R. Co’s, staff in Fiji, and later was in the service

of the Vancouver Fiji Sugar Co. at Navua.

On their return from the continent he and his wife will reside in Sydney.

Lady Murray, wife of the Papuan Ad ministrator, returned to Port Moresby by the Macdhui on May 2, after a holiday visit to Australia.

Mr. A. E. Allman left Sydney by the Malaita on April 18 for Makambo, Solo mon Islands. He recently joined the staff of Messrs. Burns Philp (S.S.) Ltd. and will be stationed at Makambo as book keeper.

Mr. R. R. Anson, of Fiji, arrived in Sydney with his wife and two children by the Mariposa on April 23, On behalf of the Cotton Growing Association, Mr.

Anson has been experimenting with cotton plants for a number of years at Sigatoka.

He was able to evolve a new type of cotton which is thought to be most ap plicable to Fiji conditions. Having com pleted his work in the Colony Mr. Anson has now been transferred to the Sudan.

Mr. Peter Radcliffe, New Guinea pros pector and explorer, left Sydney for Papua by the Macdhui on May 2. He returned to Port Moresby and then set off into the interior for the Tauri area, where he is supervising operations for Golden Stream N.L.

Mr. W. J. Candler, travelling inspector for Messrs. Gillespie Bros. Ltd., the well known manufacturers of Anchor flour, Sydney, returned from New Guinea by the Tanda in April, and will leave shortly on a business trip to Fiji.

Mr. G. R. Robertson, manager of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co.’s mill at Lautoka, returned to Fiji by the April Niagara after furlough. Other C.S.R. officials who returned to the Colony on the Niagara after leave spent in Austra lia were Mr. and Mrs. G. A. L. Zillman (of Penang), Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Greenwood (of Lautoka), and Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Sey mour.

Mr. John Dalton, of the prospecting staff of Placer Development Ltd v re turned to Bulolo, New Guinea, by the Macdhui on May 2.

Mrs. Ove Hertz, better known to many as Mrs. Eileen Whiteman, has been seriously ill in the Namanula hospital, New Guinea, for several weeks. Latest reports indicate that her condition has improved.

Miss Juliette Bernard, of the Shell Co., was in Melbourne recently on her way to France to spend her annual furlough with her sister in Paris. She is a mem ber of the Shell Go’s, staff at Noumea, New Caledonia.

Mr. Arthur J. Vogan, well-known traveller and writer on Pacific affairs, sailed from Sydney for Suva by the Niagara at the end of April. He will pursue his archaelogical investigations in the Colony.

Dr. Northcote Deck, who for 20 years was a missionary in the Solomon Islands for the South Seas Evangelical Mission, recently returned to Australia from Eng land. He is now deputation secretary of the mission, residing at Gordon, N.S.W.

For many years he was captain of the mission ship “Evangel” in the Solomons.

Dr. Deck was the first white man to cross the then cannibal island of Malaita and, for his exploratory work in the group, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Miss Smythe, who was for many years in charge of the C.S.R. Go’s, rest-house at Lautoka, Fiji, is now living in retire ment at Belvedere Guest House, Darling hurst, N.S.W.

Mr. C. W. Mann, M.A., left Sydney for Suva, Fiji, by the Mariposa on May 1.

He has been awarded a grant by the Carnegie Trust, America, to make a close investigation of the problem of education in Fiji. Mr. Mann will work in co operation with the Fiji Government.

Rev. N. H. Wright, B.A., Methodist Missionary among the Indians at Ba, Fiji, will leave Suva shortly for Auck land, New Zealand, on two months’ sick leave.

Rev. Stephen Lehner, Superintendent of the Lutheran Mission (Neuendettelsau.

Mission Society) at Finschafen, recently left New Guinea on extended furlough by the “Friderun” for Hongkong and Europe.

He has been in the Mandated Territory for 32 years, and is a noted authority on matters pertaining to the country, its natives, and their culture. His place has been taken by Rev. William Flierl, son of Rev. John Flierl, D.D., founder and first Superintendent of the mission, and who is now living in retirement in South Aus tralia. The new Superintendent, who re ceived his theological training in Ger many and America, was formerly in charge of the native seminary at Helds bach, New Guinea.

Mr. H. Hawker, of the mechanical staff of the “Rabaul Times,” New Guinea, has arrived in Sydney on furlough. He is being relieved by Mr. E. Palmer (on leave from the Halstead Printing Co., Ltd., Syd ney), who will spend six months in Ra baul.

Mr. F. Fournier, a geologist, who is attached to the prospecting staff of Placer Development Ltd., returned to Bulolo, New Guinea on May 2, after furlough in Aus tralia. While in Sydney Mr. Fournier was married to Miss Jean MacDearmid, who. recently arrived in Australia from Van couver, Canada.

Brigadier-General E. A. Wisdom, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., returned to Sydney by the Macdhui from Papua on April 17. He left immediately for Melbourne to report to his co-directors of Lakekamu Gold fields (Papua) Development, N.L., the results of his tour of inspection of the areas held by them on the Lakekamu field.

Sister Mary Ignatius returned to Buin on the southern coast of Bougainville Island, New Guinea, by the April Malaita. She has completely recovered from her illness which necessitated a 16 months’ health rest in Australia. For over 25 years she has been attached to the Marist mission station at Buin.

Mr. B. G. Edgell, of Messrs. Edgell and Whiteley, proprietors of Pak plan tations, Manus, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney in April on furlough after spend ing some months in the East. He is spending a few weeks in Australia before returning to the territory.

Mr. G. Fulton, who was general man ager in Sydney for several years for Messrs. Lever’s Pacific Plantations Pty.

Ltd. and who now has retired, left for England at the end of April. He intends to spend the next few years in Europe.

Mr. H. W. G. Nobbs, who is a director of Messrs. Holbrooks (A/sia) Ltd., ac companied by Mrs. Nobbs, will leave by the m.v. Malaita on May 30, on a tour of the Solomon Islands and New Guinea.

They will spend a few days in Rabaul and will return to Sydney by the Mac dhui.

Mr. Sydney Nobbs, of Norfolk Island, who has been in Australia on a holiday visit for some weeks, will leave Sydney for Lord Howe Island by the Morinda on June 8.

Mr. Wallace E. Hayes has been ap pointed a director of Edie Options Ltd., a Melbourne company formed to seek gold in New Guinea.