Hospital

Papuan Administrator In

A BRIEF message published in the Mel bourne newspapers on May 22 stated that Sir Hubert Murray, K.C.M.G. (Lieu tenant-Governor of Papua), who is at pre sent on a visit to England, had entered the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London.

It was subsequently reported on June 5 that His Excellency had recovered suf ficiently to leave the hospital. He will depart for Australia, via Singapore, on July 3, on his return to Papua.

Messrs Levers’ Pacific Plantations Company's inter-island vessel “Miro,” after she was cast ashore by a storm recently in the Solomon Islands. She was later refloated, and taken to Levers’ headquarters at Gavutu for repairs. —Photo.: M. Harper.