About Islands People

Sir Hubert Murray, Lieutenant-Gov ernor of Papua, returned from Norfolk Island to Sydney at the end of January.

Accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. C. R.

Pinney (wife of the Administrator of Nor folk Island) he will leave for England on March 3 to join Lady Murray and his two sons, who are already in London.

Mr. J. C. M. Scott, manager at Makam bo, Solomon Islands, of Messrs. Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., arrived in Sydney to spend furlough, by the Malaita on Feb ruary 13.

Monsieur Dumoulin arrived in Noumea from Europe by the Ediran at the end of January. He has now taken up duties as

Procureur-General and head of the Judicial Administration in New Caledonia.

Mr. A. E. T. Corrie, principal of the Cor rie Tea Co., will leave Sydney for Suva by the Mariposa on March 4 on one of his periodical business trips to Fiji.

Mr. R. C. MacPherson, of the literary staff of the “Fiji Times and Herald,”

Suva, returned to the Colony after leave in Australia, by the Niagara on January 30.

Rev. J. W. Schomberg, who had been associated for many years with the Ang lican Torres Straits Mission, died at Thursday Island on February 5. After a long and useful career, he was laid to rest on Moa Island—the scene of his labours—on February 11.

Sir Henry and Lady Marks, prominent residents of Suva, Fiji, returned to the Colony from London by the Ruahine on January 28.

Mr. C. V. Widdy, manager in the Solo mon Islands for Lever’s Pacific Planta tions Pty, Ltd., reached Sydney by the Malaita on February 13, on furlough.

Mr. David W. Amos, general manager in Fiji for the Pacific Insurance Co. Ltd., returned to Suva with his wife, after a tour of Great Britain, by the Ruahine on January 28.

Mr. H. G. Carter and Mr. C. J. Rutledge,. directors of Cuthbert’s Misima Goldmine Ltd., were passengers to Samarai, Papua,, by the last Montoro.

Mr. Andrew Kelly, well-known Rabaul solicitor, departed from Sydney on Janu ary 30 on his return to the Territory by the Macdhui.

Mr. A. H. Bunting, a well-known resi dent of Eastern Papua, sailed from Australia for Samarai by the January Macdhui.

Mrs. W. Ramsay McNicoll, wife of the Administrator of New Guinea, returned to Rabaul, after spending a holiday in Australia, by the Nankin from Sydney on February 12.

Captain A. C. Middenway, formerly dis trict officer at Gizo, Solomon Islands, who now is retired and living in Portland, Vic toria, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace.

Rev. E. A. Codd, of the Melanesian Mission, who has worked for two years at the Vureas School in the Banks Group, New Hebrides, will sail from Sydney by the Malaita on February 22, with his wife and infant daughter, to take up duties at Siota in the Solomon Islands.

Rev. and Mrs. R. L. McDonald arrived in Sydney from Fiji with their daughters on January 27. With a great record of service, Mr. McDonald has just retired from the Fiji District of the Methodist Mission, where he laboured for 27 years, during 12 years of which he was District Chairman.