About Islands People

Rev. H. H. Bock, a young Melbourne minister of Ouyen, Victoria, has been ac cepted by the Methodist Missionary So ciety for work in the South Seas. He probably will be stationed in Fiji.

Mr. E. W. P. Chinnery, Government Anthropologist, and head of the District Service Department in New Guinea, left on his return to Rabaul by the Nankin on February 12, after spending furlough in Australia.

Dr. Turbott, who acted as Chief Medical Officer at Apia Hospital during the ab sence on furlough of Dr. P. J. Monaghan, returned to New Zealand from Western Samoa by the Maui Pomare on January 2.

Mrs. T. H. Downs, of Cape Marsh, Solomon Islands, arrived in Sydney by the last Malaita, and is staying with her parents, Sir William and Lady Durrant, at Manly.

Crown Prince Taufa’ahau (heir to the Tongan throne) left Nukualofa for Well ington, New Zealand, on his return to Australia to continue his studies at New ington College, Sydney, by the Port Whangarei, in February.

Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Peadon, of the Upper Ramu River district, New Guinea, sailed from Sydney for Rabaul by the Nankin on February 12. Mr ;vf is a well-known miner in the Territory, has two alluvial claims m the Upper Ramu district, where he has lived for six years ’

Rev. W. Shepherd, of Dimboola, Victoria, was recommended by the Methodist Conference of Victoria and Tasmania, held in Melbourne in February, as a successor to Rev. H. A. Wood, as principal of Tubou College, Nukualofa, in Tonga.

Mr. Wood, who came to Australia with the last Tongan Choir, is retiring shortly.

Dr. Clifford S. James, M.B., B.Ch., F.R.C.S., who recently joined the Melanesian Mission as Medical Officer for the Fauabu Hospital on Malaita Island in the Solomons Group. He is now on furlough in New Zealand, and, accompanied by his wife, will sail for Tulagi by the Malaita from Sydney early in April. Dr. James spent six years in New Bri tain at the Methodist Missionary Society’s Stewart Hospital, Vunairima. —Photo. by courtesy of Major H. Robinson.