About Islands People

Mr. N. O. Clappison, of the Titles Office at Rabaul, New Guinea, was married to Miss Margaret Nibloe, of Bitapaka, New Britain, on May 21. They arrived in Sydney on a honeymoon trip to Australia by the Macdhui on June 7.

Mr. N. S. Stuckey, who spent three months prospecting for gold in Fiji, returned to Australia by the Niagara on June 15. Mr, Stuckey found gold in small quantities in various districts and is of the opinion that it is only a matter of time before further rich areas are discovered.

Mr. R. B. Carpenter, son of Mr. W. R.

Carpenter, well-known director of Messrs.

W. R. Carpenter & Co., Ltd., left Sydney for England, via America, by the Monterey on May 29. Owing to the expansion of Messrs. Carpenters’ shipping and trade activities between Europe, Australia and the Pacific Islands, Mr. R. B. Carpenter will establish a branch of the firm in London. It is expected that he will be away from Australia for 18 months.

Mrs. Harold Fenner, of Fiji, who has been in Australia for several months, is at present staying at Ranelagh, Darling Point.

Judge R. T. Gore, of the Central Court, Papua, returned to Port Moresby with his wife early in June, after a holiday visit to Australia.

Mr. and Mrs. G. Klinkmueller, of Western Samoa, returned with their daughter to Apia in May, after a lengthy holiday on the Continent. Mr. Klinkmueller is a well-known solicitor in Samoa.

Mr. Bowen Jones, manager of Guinea Airways, Ltd., at Wau, New Guinea, returned to the Mandated Territory by the Montoro from Sydney on May 25. He came to Australia about two months ago on account of ill-health, but has now completely recovered.

Mr. Thomas Horne, managing director of Messrs. Walter Horne, Ltd., general merchants, of Suva, returned to Fiji by the Monterey on May 29, after several months’ health rest in New South Wales.

Mr. Harry C. King, a well-known resident of Papua, died in hospital at Port Moresby on May 28. Mr. King, who had been in bad health for several months past, is survived by a widow, two daughters, and two sons.

Mr. Max Lees, manager of Messrs. W.

R. Carpenter (Solomon Is.) Co.’s Ulaveo plantation at Kokopo, New Britain, returned to Rabaul, after furlough in Sydney, by the June Macdhui.

Mrs. W. Cannon, who for two months had been staying in Fiji with her daughter, Mrs. J. Morrison, of Ba, arrived back in Australia by the Niagara on June 15.

Mr. and Mrs. White left Apia, Western Samoa, for New Zealand by the Maui Pomare on May 1. Mr. White, who was prominent in Apia sporting circles, has completed his term of office as account ant of the New Zealand Reparation Estates.

Mr. L. W. Vincent, manager of Arawe plantation at Gasmata, New Britain, returned to Rabaul by the Macdhui on June 13.

Mr. R. F. Brownette, of Sydney, who had been in Fiji since March on a holiday and business trip, reached Sydney by the Niagara on June 15. Mr. Brownette remarked on the progress made in Suva, and particularly around Lautoka, since he was there three years ago.

Mr. and Mrs. I. H, Grabowsky left Sydney by the Macdhui on June 13. Mr.

Grabowsky, who is general manager in the Mandated Territory for Guinea Air ways, Ltd., arrived in Sydney in December last. He underwent a serious operation in January, and his left leg was amputated above the ankle. Captain Grabowsky, who will make the round trip on the Macdhui, was very cheery prior to his departure and was looking forward eagerly to meeting his many friends in New Guinea.

Mr. A. Le Breton Mount, a well-known miner and trader of Wau, New Guinea, died in hospital after a grave illness on April 11. He had been in the territory for over 20 years, and before going to the goldfields was a trader and recruiter in the New Britain district.

Hon. H. W. Champion, Government Secretary of Papua, recently arrived in Australia from Port Moresby on long leave. During his absence, Mr. A. J. Bates, Chief Clerk of the Government Secretary’s Department, is acting as Government Secretary.

Mr. F. W. Hempleman, B.A., of Auckland, New Zealand, has been appointed Resident Agent of Atiu Island, in the Southern Cook Group. Accompanied by his wife he will take up his new position almost immediately. Mrs. Hempleman will be the second European woman on the island: Mrs. Savage, wife of the store keeper, has resided there for a number of years.

Mr. D. C. Dyason, a former president of the Australian Gold Producers’ Association, left Sydney for New Guinea by the June Macdhui. He was joined at Brisbane by Mr. J. H. Curie, mining engineer and world-famous author of travel books, and together they proceeded to Lae. They intend to fly over to Bulolo and spend some time inspecting the field. Though Mr.

Curie may not write a special volume on his impressions of New Guinea and the growth of its mining and aerial transport industries, said Mr, Dyason, it is certain that many of his observations will be in corporated in his next book.

Mr. E. Scott, of Viti Levu Gold Syndicate, returned to Melbourne by the Niagara on June 15, after prospecting in Fiji for four months. Mr. Scott, who was one of the original members of the Koroere syndicate (which sold its option to Mr. E. G. Theodore), intends to return to the Colony in July.

Mr. R. E. P. Dwyer, B.Sc.Ag., Economic Botanist in the New Guinea Department of Agriculture, was married at Rabaul to Miss L. Cullen, of Sydney, on May 18.

Mr. G. S. Dyer, a mining expert, who has had considerable experience in America and Asia, arrived in Sydney from San Francisco by the Makura on June 6.

He has been engaged by Guinea Gold, N.L., to report upon its areas in the Lakekamu district, Papua. After a quick trip to Adelaide, South Australia, to consult with the directors of Guinea Gold, Mr. Dyer sailed for Port Moresby by the Macdhui on June 13.

Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Mac Kay, of Nacaugi plantation, Fiji, arrived in Sydney on three months’ furlough by the June Niagara.

Captain S. N. McLean, of Oriomo Explorations Ltd., sailed from Sydney for New Guinea by the June Macdhui. He took two drilling sets with him in order to close bore the company’s Consolidated Claims at Bulolo, as a preliminary to their development. Mr. McLean said that Mr.

J. Dyneley Fell has joined the directorate of Oriomo Explorations Ltd.

Flight-Lieutenant Stuart Campbell will leave Sydney for Papua late in June in a new Short Scion monoplane. The plane has been bought by Oroville Gold Dredging Co. Ltd. for aerial exploration on a gold concession of over 35,000 square miles north of the Gulf of Papua and along Musgrave and Albert Victor mountain ranges. It is to operate from bases on the Fly River.

Hon. I. H. Carruthers, member of the Legislative Council of Western Samoa, was married in Apia Protestant church to Miss Moe Meyer, on May 11.

Mr. William Philip Ragg, of Suva, was married to Miss Mary Turner, of Nasese, Fiji, at the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Suva, on May 8. The couple sailed on a honeymoon voyage to Europe and England by the Aorangi on May 10.

Mr. F. Dillon, of the Adelaide Stock Exchange, returned to Australia on June 13, after a business visit to Fiji in connection with the gold industry.

Dr. C. C. Simson, who has plantation interests in Papua, made one of his periodical visits to that territory by the Macdhui from Sydney on June 13.

Sir Charles Marr, M.P., left Sydney for Fiji by the Aorangi on May 23. After visiting the Tavua goldfield on behalf of Tavua Gold Developments Ltd., of which he is a director, Sir Charles returned to Australia on June 19.

Mr. George Miller, of Messrs. Kerr Brothers, Ltd., Islands merchants, of Sydney, left for Rabaul, New Guinea, by the June Macdhui.

Rev. Brother P. E. Titz, of the Sacred Heart Mission at Yule Island, returned to Papua by the last Macdhui. He has been a missionary in the territory for 12 years and has just completed furlough in his native country, Switzerland.

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Nicol arrived in Sydney by the Morinda from Vila, New Hebrides on May 27. Mr. Nicol is Condominium Agent at Tanna Island.

Major Graham Kinloch, a prominent resident of Salamaua, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney with his wife by the Macdhui on June 7.

Rev. C. Moir Smith, of the London Mission Society, arrived in Sydney from Papua by the Macdhui in April. After three months’ furlough in N.S.W., he will return with his wife to the L.M.S. station at Urika, Papua.

Mr. Bartle Ryan, Melbourne mining engineer, left Sydney for New Guinea by the Macdhui on June 13. On behalf of Gold Prospecting and Development (N.G.) N.L., he is on his way to the Mandated Territory to test a large alluvial property. The company’s plans are a close secret, but it is understood that Mr. Ryan will leave Kavieng with a party of 12 assistants, and after a launch journey of 100 miles in open sea will land on a small island in the St. Matthias Group. Mr.

Ryan has taken a complete set of boring and shafting equipment with him to test the property.

Mr. W. Teeling, a member of the Governing Council of the Overseas League, returned to Australia recently from Papua and New Guinea. He made a 16-days’ tour of Eastern Papua with the Governor (Sir Hubert Murray), and, in Rabaul, he was the guest of the Administrator (Gene ral McNicoll).

Mr. S. H. Chance, Assistant R.M., Samarai, Papua, who has been holidaying in Cairns (where his wife has been successfully receiving medical treatment for blood poisoning) returned to Port Moresby on the June Macdhui. Mr.

Chance has been appointed Acting R.M., Western Division, with headquarters on Daru Island.

Mr. V. Kenniff, who was a resident of Fiji from 1921 to 1929, writes to us from the Public Works Department in Jerusalem, Palestine, where he now is settled down, and sends regards to old friends.

Mr. Kenniff remarks that he spent some years recently in Cyprus, where he had seen copies of the “Pacific Islands Monthly."

Right Rev. Henry Newton (Bishop of New Guinea), who has announced his intention of retiring from the diocese at the end of the year, is one of the outstanding figures among missionaries serving in the South Seas, says the “Christian World.” His life has been spent almost entirely in the rough. He has never taken a Bishop’s stipend, though he has always more than earned it. It has been his practice to accept £25 a year and board and lodging, and to pay the remainder into the missionary cause, which he has so much at heart. He has tramped thousands of weary miles over the roughest parts of Papua and New Guinea, often barefooted, like the natives, to reach those whom he wished to serve. This for an Oxford graduate who is a scholarship winner, a gold medallist and a mathematician of distinction. Always he has lived humbly the better to carry on his missionary work, yet he is known as a man of strong and courageous spirit.

Mr. Yoneda, one of the directors of the Japanese steamship company, Yamashita Kishen Kaisha, arrived in Noumea recently to investigate the possibilities of expanding trade between his country and New Caledonia. A Japanese geologist who accompanied Mr. Yoneda was much impressed with the mineral resources of New Caledonia and considered that they would play an important part in the future commercial relations between Japan and the French colony.

Mr. John MacGregor, a well-known Sydney, journalist, died at Wollstonecraft.

N.S.W., on May 13. One of his sons, Mr.

Kenneth MacGregor, is a resident of New Guinea.

Mr. I. H. Grabowsky (general manager of Guinea Airways Ltd.), who suffered a severe illness during the year, is now well on the road to recovery. During his temporary absence (it was reported at Guinea Airways’ annual meeting), the burden of management has fallen upon Mr. E. H. Chater, one of the senior pilots, who has acquitted himself with great credit. The whole staff has also given excellent service.

Mr. George Jeffrey, a director and one of the founders of Guinea Gold N.L., returned to Australia after a visit to America by the Monterey on May 20. After a brief stay in Sydney he went on to Adelaide.

Right Rev. Joseph M. Bach, D.D., M.S.C., who recently retired from the Sacred Heart Mission Society after serving for 25 years in the South Seas, left Sydney for Port Moresby by the Macdhui on June 15. Later he will journey on to Yule Island to attend the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Sacred Heart Mission at Yule Is., which will be held shortly.