About Islands People

Rev. F. W. Noack, one of the leaders of the New Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia, has left for New Guinea, where, with the Rev. H. Freund, he will open a mission station.

Mr. A. J. Murray, who has been a mem ber of Messrs. Burns Philp (South Sea) Go’s staff at Apia, Western Samoa, for a number of years, arrived in Auckland by the Lurline on November 2 to spend fur lough with his relatives in New Zealand.

On the completion of his leave he will join one of B.P.’s branches in Fiji.

Rev. J. Housden, 8.A., L. Th., of Dar win, has announced his engagement to Miss Moira Hennessey, assistant registrar

of the Anglican Church at Thursday Island.

Mr. James Sim, of Hathorn Sound, Solomon Islands, arrived in Sydney on holidays by the Malaita on November 8.

He is Lever’s Pacific Plantations Co.’s copra inspector in the group.

Dr. Gordon Heaslip, superintendent of the Methodist Mission’s hospital at Sala mo, Papua, has resigned through ill health. He arrived in Australia from Papua by the Montoro on November 7.

Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Taylor returned to New Guinea by the Nankin in October after visiting Australia, America and the East. Mr. Taylor will shortly assume the duties of District Officer in the Morobe district.

Mr. Bridle, chief accountant of New Zea land Reparations .Estates, was married recently in New Zealand; and was accom panied by his young wife on his return to Samoa, Mr. B. C. Ballard has now settled down in Vila, New Hebrides, as “Solicitor re presenting Australian interests in the Condominium.” He has taken the places of Mr. Wallace, who retired from that position some time ago.

Mr. L. G. Vial, cadet in the New Guinea Public Service, left Cairns, North Queens land, for Rabaul by the Macdhui on October 29. He had been on short fur lough in Australia.

Mr. J. Blaikie Webster, of London, left Brisbane for New Guinea by the Mac dhui on October 26 to inspect the areas of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. of whicli he is chairman of directors.

Mr. Charles H. Sturgeon, radio-telegra phist on the staff of Amalgamated Wire less (A/sia) Ltd. at Rabaul, sailed from Sydney by the Macdhui on October 26 for New Britain.

His Honour D. S. Wanllss, Chief Judg& of the Mandated Territory of New Gui nea, returned to Rabaul by the October Macdhui, after long leave spent in Vic toria and New South Wales.

Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Butler, of Murray Island, Torres Strait, arrived in Sydney from Thursday Island by the Marella, on.

October 28. Mr. Butler, who has been Government superintendent, and schoolteacher on the island for a year,, has relinquished his lonely post owing to ill-health. About 500 Murray Islanders are engaged in the trocus shell and beche de-mer industries, said Mr. Butler.

Nurse H. M. Prowse, of the Methodist Mission’s Hospital at Vunairima, New Britain, arrived in Sydney, on leave, by the Montoro on October 1.

Mr. A. W. McMillan, Inspector of Indian Schools in Fiji, returned to Suva with his wife and daughter by the Mariposa in Oc tober.

Captain A. S. Fitch, managing-director of Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby, Papua, arrived in Sydney on a. business trip by the Macdhui on October 17.

Mr. T. Aitchison, cadet in the N.G. Dis trict Services Department, sailed for Rabaul after short leave in Australia, by the Macdhui, in October.

Right Rev. Walter Hubert Baddeley, M.A., D. 5.0., M.C., who has been Bishop of Melanesia since 1932, was mar ried in South Australia to Miss M. K.

Thomas, younger daughter of the Bishop

of Adelaide (Right. Rev. A. Nutter Thomas), on November 13. The couple left for London by the Orsova the fol lowing day. At the request of the Eng lish committee of the Melanesian Mission, Bishop Baddeley will carry out three months’ propaganda work in England in connection with the work the Mission hopes to undertake among the uncivilised tribes in Central New Guinea. The Mis sion plans to raise £5,000 as an initial sum to commence work in the Mount Hagen region next year. The Bishop and his bride will return to the Solomon Islands in May.

Major Clive B. Joske, 0.8. E., M.C., of Suva, Fiji, arrived in Sydney at the end of October. He left immediately for Leura, on the Blue Mountains, N.S.W., where his mother was seriously ill.

Mr. Zane Grey, a prominent American author, who is well-known in Polynesia, for his big-game fishing exploits, is to visit Australia in January next, according to information received by the Shell Com pany. Though he will call at several Pacific Islands ports en route to Sydney, it is un likely that he will have sufficient time to indulge in his beloved pelagic sport in South Seas waters.

Miss Esther Williams, 8.A., Dip. Ed., de parted from Sydney for Suva, Fiji, by the Mariposa on October 16, after two months’ furlough in Australia. She is a member of the Methodist Mission’s staff working among the Indians at Lautoka.

Sir Maynard and Lady Hedstrom, ac companied by Mr. Keith Hedstrom, ar rived in Suva by the Mariposa on October 25, after a visit to Victoria.

Rev. E. G. Harris, 8.A., Methodist minister of Vavau, Tonga, arrived in Mel bourne by the Mariposa on October 11, on his first furlough in eight years.

Mr. Frank Hambridge, prominent Syd ney mining man, left for Papua by the October Macdhui. He is managing direc tor of Cuthbert’s Misima Gold Mine Ltd., the new company which recently took over the Umuna mine on Misima Island, where he will spend several weeks in specting the property.

Mr. W. J. Keith, who has been asso ciated with the merchandising department of Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., Sydney, for the past 18 years, has been transferred to Rabaul, New Britain. He left for the Mandated Territory by the Macdhui on October 24.

Mr. J. J. Griffiths, manager of the Grand Pacific Hotel, Suva, left Fiji for New Zea land on holidays by the Monowai on Oc tober 25. Mr. A. G. Taylor, who arrived in Suva by the October Niagara, is at present acting as manager,

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Right Rev. W. H. Baddeley.

Mr. M. J. H ealy, of the Papuan Magis terial Service, who arrived in Sydney with his wife early in August, returned to Port Moresby by the Macdhui on October 24.

Miss Ethel Slade, of the New Guinea Mission at Dogura, Papua, is at present in Sydney on furlough.

Mr. E. A. Feldt, District Officer, re turned to New Guinea from Brisbane by the Macdhui on October 26.

Dr. Kervingant, who recently arrived in New Caledonia, has replaced Dr. Passe rieux at the Government Hospital, Nou mea. Dr. Passerieux returned to France, via Indo-China, by the La Perouse on Oc tober 21.

Dr. Agnes Hoeger, an American, has joined th© medical staff of the Lutheran Mission in New Guinea. She has been engaged for a term of seven years and will be stationed at Amele, Madang District.

Miss Ada N. Lade, who was principal for 11 years of the Methodist Mission’s Avoka Girls’. High School, Western Samoa,

died, after a protracted illness, on October 6.

Rev. W. Milne, of the Presbyterian Mis sion in New Hebrides, reached Sydney by the Morinda on November 12. With his wife, who assists him in his work at Nguna Island, he will shortly leave for New Zealand. Mr. Milne was born at Nguna and has followed in the footsteps of his father, who was also a missionary there. Having been educated in the Dominion, he is returning to renew youth ful associations.

Colonel A. T. Watson, London mining engineer, left Sydney for the New Guinea goldfields by the Montoro on November 13. He will later join the Neptuna for Manila and go on to England via Sin gapore.

Rev. T. Macmillan, Presbyterian mis sionary at Tanna Island, New Hebrides, arrived in Sydney with his wife by the Morinda on November 12. He has just retired after 40 years’ work in the group, and intends to settle in Melbourne.

Mr. Clyde Taylor, constructional engi neer of Bulolo Gold Dredging Co., who* recently returned to Australia from fur lough in America, departed for Wau, via Port Moresby, by the Montoro on Novem ber 13.

Mr. and Mrs. Claude T. Drane arrived in Sydney from New Guinea by the Nan kin on October 23. Mr. Drane is a mem ber of the Vacuum Oil Co.’s staff at Rabaul.

Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Hill, of Vila, New Hebrides, arrived in Australia by the- Van Rees on November 12. Mr. Hill is treasurer of the Condominium Govern ment.

Mr. C. Thomas, of the Sydney Steel Co. Ltd., of Marrickville, N.S.W., left.

Sydney for the Mandated Territory by the Montoro in mid-November, He will supervise the erection of new stores and. offices for Guinea Airways Limited and a new hangar for Holden’s Air Transport Service Ltd. at Salamaua.

Mr. Henry Dexter left Samarai, Papua, within a fortnight after his arrival there and returned to England by the Mooltan, which sailed from Sydney in mid-Novem ber. Mr. Dexter had intended to settle down in Samarai and resume trading, and he brought out with him, for that purpose, a large quantity of goods. Radio grams had reached him before he actually arrived in Samarai, however, conveying information which made it imperative for him to return to London to attend to family matters. Mr. Dexter, accordingly,, sold his goods to one of the stores in Samarai and caught the south-bound.

Montoro, Mr. C. V. T. Wells, of Adelaide, chair man of Guinea Gold N.L., and of Guinea Airways Ltd., left Sydney in mid- November to visit Papua and New Guinea. It is expected that, while in Papua, he will visit the Lakekamu dis trict, where an extensive investigation of gold-bearing country is being carried out by Guinea Gold N.L.

Mr. G. R. Thomas, New South Wales- Director of Education, returned to Aus tralia by the Morinda on November 12,. from Norfolk Island, where he inspected! the Government school, which works ac cording to the N.S.W. syllabus.

Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Irvine, of Gili Gili! plantation, Samarai, departed from Syd ney for Papua by the November Montoro..