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Mr. J. C. M. Scott, manager of Messrs.

Burns Philp (S.S.) Co. Ltd., at Makambo, returned to the Solomon Islands with his wife by the Malaita from Sydney on May 16.

Sister Svensen, who is on the staff of Tulagi Hospital, 8.5.1., will resign shortly to marry Mr. E. Farmer, a well-known resident of the Solomons. Mr. O. Svensen, at an early date, is to marry Miss Clarke, daughter of Mr. Douglas Clarke, of Levers Pacific Plantations, Ltd. They are the daughter and son respectively of Captain Svensen, well known in the Central Pacific.

Mr. K. W. Steedman, legal manager of Upper Sepik Gold Syndicate, N.L., has completed the company’s business in New Guinea. He returned by the Macdhui which reached Sydney on May 21.

Mr. J. J. McHugh, who has been Gov ernment Printer in Fiji for 32 years, left Suva early in May on furlough prior to retiring from the service. Mr. H. R.

Craigie has been appointed Acting Gov ernment Printer.

Mr. C. H. Karius, Assistant Resident Magistrate in the Papuan Public Service, sailed from Sydney with his wife for Samarai by the May Montoro.

Mr. William Buddie McEwan, of Suva, died on May 4, at the age of 56. A Scots man, he went to Fiji via Australia about 25 years ago, joining Henry Marks and Co. and continuing with the firm when it merged with Morris, Hedstrom Ltd. Mr.

McEwan was well-known in the Ba Dis trict, where he spent most of his time, though during the last four years he had lived in Suva.

Mr. William C. Groves, of Melbourne, a research fellow in social anthropology under the Australian National Research Council, has been visiting Sydney to con fer with Dr. A. P. Elkin, Professor of Anthropology at the Sydney University.

He has delivered a series of lectures on Melanesian culture to groups of mission aries and cadets from the New Guinea administration. On May 19 he lectured before the New South Wales Anthro pological Society on “The Secret Beliefs and Practices of a Melanesian People.” Mr.

Groves, who spent several years in anth ropological research work in New Guinea, is writing a book dealing with his obser vations in the territory.