About Islands People

Dr. and Mrs. Giblin, of Port Moresby, with their two sons Dexter and Eric are at present residing at Manly, Sydney, during the boys’ vacation from River view College. The doctor has spent some of his leave in Fiji and N.Z.

Mrs. Emma Petersen, whose late hus band was for many years chief engineer on the Niagara, has returned to New Zealand after spending several months in Sydney with her daughter, Mrs. Jack Gaffney. Mrs. Petersen is a Samoan chieftainess, and is related to the family of King Mataafa. She is also a cousin of Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Nelson. Of late years her home has been in Auckland, but she has resided in Samoa and Fiji.

Miss A. Uppiil, of the Methodist Mis sion at Nadroga, Fiji, arrived in Sydney by the Aorangi on December 28. Accom panied by a Fijian girl from the Manikau Girls’ School, she later went on to Adel aide, South Australia.

M rs. Keith and her small son were fare welled by many Sydney friends as the Montoro pulled out for New Guinea on January 11. Mr. Keith is a member of the Burns, Philp staff at Rabaul.

Mrs. W. W. Clarke and her children, from Wau, New Guinea, are residing at Manly, Sydney, during the summer months.

Mr. Clinton, a mining engineer, who represents a group of Melbourne finan ciers, recently arrived in Noumea, New Caledonia, by the Ville de Strasbourg.

He later went on to Houailou in the in terior of the Colony to inspect a promis ing area.

Monsieur Dujardin, who has been ap pointed by the British and French Gov ernments as Native Advocate in the Condominium of the New Hebrides, ar rived in Vila from Europe on December 5. He’ is a native of Belgium.

Rev. C. W. Light, of the New Guinea Mission in Papua, who has been spend ing furlough in England with his wife, is expected to arrive in Sydney shortly.

He will then return to his station at Boianai.

Mr. J. S. Bennett, a former student of Cambridge University, arrived in Mel bourne on January 9 by the Norwegian motor ship Temeraire from South Africa.

He is en route to Fiji, where he will en gage in goldmining, Mr. C. Cowley, who has been Officer In Charge of police at the Oroville Com pany’s camp on the Fly River, Western Papua, arrived in Sydney on furlough by the Van Rees on January 14. He s£,id that while waiting at Daru for transport to Port Moresby, Lord Moyne in his yacht Rosaura called there and offered him passage to Moresby as his guest. He later accompanied the British peer to Rabaul, New Guinea, where he joined the Van Rees for Australia.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Wayne, with their baby daughter Janet, arrived in Sydney on furlough by the January Van Rees. Mr.

Wayne is a Methodist missionary at Ulu, Duke of York Islands, near Rabaul, New Guinea. Mr. Wayne’s mother, Mrs. Syd ney Stevens, also arrived from the Duke of York Islands by the same vessel.

Monsieur E. de Hensch, a Belgian trader, arrived in Sydney by the La perouse from Noumea on January 9. He spent some time in the French Colony prospecting for gold, but was disappointed with results. Before going to New Caledonia he was for several years in Africa, where he traded in ivory in the Belgian Congo.