About Islands People

Mr. G. M. Keogh, Assistant District Officer in the New Guinea Administration, returned to the territory after long leave in Australia by the Montoro on August 27. Before leaving New Guinea on fur lough, he was A.D.O. at Ambunti, the Government station 250 miles up the Sepik River, North-West New Guinea.

Mr. Michael Parer, father of Mr, Ray mond J. Parer, the well-known New Guinea airman, died at Brisbane on August 28. Born in Spain and educated in France, he came to Australia at the age of 20. Three other sons are residents of the Morobe goldfields, New Guinea.

Mr. F. P. Archer, of Jame plantation,.

Buka Passage, Bougainville, who is a representative of the Planters’ Associa tion of New Guinea, arrived in Sydney by the Neptuna on August 28 to spend several months’ holiday in Australia.

Mr. Donald Reid, chairman of direc tors of Gold Mines of Fiji N.L. and Fiji Gold N.L., left Sydney for Suva, Fiji, by the Mariposa on August 21.

Mr. F. W. Eggleston, a former Attor ney-General of Victoria, was elected the Australian member of the Pacific Coun cil of the Institute of Pacific Relations at the third annual meeting of the Common wealth Council of the Australian Institute of International Affairs held in Brisbane in August.

M rs. Bob Franklin, of the Kiandi Hotel, Edie Creek, New Guinea, is spending some months’ vacation in Sydney with. her people at Rose Bay.

Mr. Larry Knightley left Sydney by the Macdhui for New Guinea on September 12, after holidays in Australia. It was his first vacation in the 11 years he has spent on the N.G. goldfields.

Mr. J. Pearce, of Morobe goldfield, New Guinea, has been spending furlough in Australia with another old Territory iden tity, Mr. Ted Nichterlein. Both left Syd ney by the Van Rees for New Guinea early in September and will now be asso ciated with Messrs. Spence and Smith Ltd., mining engineers, at Wau.

Mr. T. Blakey, formerly manager of Day Dawn Mine, Edie Creek, New Guinea, who had the misfortune to break his leg, arrived in Australia recently and Is quietly recuperating in Sydney.

Mr. A. G. Sorrell left Sydney for New Guinea by the Macdhui on September 12 to take up duties with the office staff of Messrs. Holden’s Air Transport Services Ltd., at Salamaua.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Hobbs, of Ba, Fiji, with their small son, arrived in Sydney by the Aorangi on September 6.

Mr. E. K. Abraham, who recently re signed from the New Guinea Administra tion after occupying for many years the position of Postmaster at Rabaul, arrived in Queensland by the Montoro on August 10. He has now taken up duties with the Federal Taxation Department in Bris bane.

Mr. W. W. (“Nobby”) Clarke, of Edie Creek, New Guinea, who has been spend ing two months’ holiday in Sydney, has had a series of family misfortunes. His small daughter, Heather, while playing on the beach at Manly, swallowed a toy whistle and had to be rushed into hos pital for an X-ray and immediate opera tion which, fortunately, was successful.

Then Mrs. Clarke became seriously ill with throat trouble for some weeks, and as a finale the six-months-old baby de veloped measles.

Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Giblin, of Port Moresby, Papua, are coming South in a few weeks. Their two sons, who were for many years pupils at Mowbray House, Chatswood, are now boarders at St. Ig natius College, Riverview.

Mr. Fred Deckert, of Edie Creek, New Guinea, has sold his transport business; and is now living in Sydney.

Mr. and Mrs. O. Hertz, who have spent three months’ holiday in New South Wales, left by the Neptuna on September 11 for their home at Kokola planta tion, New Ireland district, New Guinea.

Mrs. Hertz, who was formerly Miss Eileen Deery, of Sydney, was married in 1917 to Mr. S. A, Whiteman, who earned fame during the War by discovering the camouflaged German vessel Comet in a bay at Talasea. After Mr. Whiteman’s death in 1920, she carried on his trading station and coconut plantation. Having remarried, Mrs. Hertz still assists in run ning the plantation, and until this trip South had not visited Australia for 12 years.

Rev. W. Burvill, of the Quetta Cathed ral, Thursday Island, arrived in Brisbane early in September by the Changte to attend the Anglican Provincial Synod.

Major C. A. Swinbourne, 0.8. E., Senior Administrative Officer of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, has returned to the Gilbert Islands after nine months’ fur lough in Australia. Proceeding to Rabaul, New Guinea, by the Montoro from Syd ney on August 27, he embarked on the Carisso for direct passage to Tarawa, the administrative centre of the group.

Mr. Swinbourne has been in various posts in the Pacific for the Colonial Service for 26 years, and prior to going to the Gilberts, he was for some years in Fiji.

Mr. Ivan Nelson, principal of the Is lands merchant and shipping firm of Nelson and Robertson Ltd., Sydney, re turned from Rabaul with his wife on August 30 by the Macdhui.

Lieut.-Colonel Leslie Fraser Standish Hore, M.C., of Luburua plantation, Kavi eng, New Guinea, died in New Ireland on September 1. He had held the positions of Chief Judge and Crown Law Officer in the Mandated Territory, but since 1927 had managed his own plantation. He is survived by a widow, a daughter, and two sons. Mr. Hore was born in India in 1870 and his life was strangely linked with Quetta, his birthplace. He married Miss Emily Lacy, one of the survivors of the Quetta which foundered in Torres Strait, and his death occurred but a few weeks after the Indian town had been devastated by an earthquake.

Mr. W. H. Carpenter, a director of Messrs. J. B. Carpenter and Co. Ltd., Thursday Island, arrived in Sydney by the Changte on September 9.

Captain W. Hamilton, who has plan tation interests in the Solomon Islands, returned to Brisbane with his daughter by the Malaita in August.

Mr. K. J. S. Chamberlain, Deputy Colo nial Treasurer of Fiji, left Suva by the Niagara recently for Gibraltar, where he has been appointed Colonial Treasurer.

He served in Kenya from 1924 until he was transferred to Fiji in 1933. Mr.

Chamberlain is a young man in the middle thirties and during his term in Fiji had displayed exceptional ability.

Mr. G. McLean, shipping manager of Messrs. W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd., New Guinea, arrived in Sydney from Rabaul by the Van Rees on September 10.

Mr. McKinna, formerly of Fiji and New Zealand, arrived in Apia, Western Samoa, in August to take up the position of mer chandise manager for Messrs. O. F. Nel son and Co. Ltd.

Mr. B. T. Heading, who has been ap pointed by Holden’s Air Transport Ser vices Ltd. to be ground engineer at Sala maua, New Guinea, left Sydney by the Neptuna on September 11. He said that the company’s second Ford passenger carrying 'plane is now in commission on the field.

Mr. R. D. Eden, manager of Vailala plantation, left Apia, Samoa, with his wife for furlough in New Zealand by the Maui Pomare on August 22.

Mr. D. Gubbay, head of the French trading firm Societe Commerciale Gubbay Freres, at Vila, New Hebrides, arrived in Sydney on September 10 by the Dutch Steamer Van Rees.