About Islands People

Dr. C. C. Simson, chairman of the Pacific Islands Association, who has plantation interests in Papua, sailed from Sydney for Port Moresby on one of his periodical business trips by the Macdhui on July 8, Mr. C. R. Harley Nott, Acting Assistant Colonial Secretary for Fiji, returned to Suva from leave spent in England on June 2. He was accompanied by his wife.

Mr. and Mrs. William G. Sears, of the Latter Day Saints Mission, left Samoa for the United States in June after com pleting their third term of service. They have been succeeded by Elder and Mrs.

William M. Waddoups.

Mr, J. R. Kinnaird, of the London Mis sionary Society, arrived in Suva in June to join the mission vessel, John Williams V., as chief engineer.

Captain A. S. Fitch, managing director of Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., departed from Australia for Samarai, Papua, by the Macdhui at the beginning of July, Mr. W. R. Smith, clerk in the Customs Department at Rabaul, returned with his wife to New Guinea from leave in Aus tralia by the Macdhui on July 8.

Mr. Robert Norton Ginn died in Suva on June 26, at the age of 60. A popular resident for 30 years, he first went to the Colony from New Zealand to join the firm of Henry Marks and Co. Latterly, Mr.

Ginn had been in the dairying industry on his own account. He is survived by his widow, two daughters (Mrs. Peter Green wood and Miss Grace Ginn), and a son (Mr. Robert Ginn), all of Suva.

Mr. E. W. Oakley, District Officer in the N.G. Service, who was formerly stationed at Lorengau, returned to Rabaul after furlough by the July Macdhui.

Mr. Frank Mote, Deputy Superintendent of the Suva Fire Brigade, left Fiji for holidays in England by the Mariposa on June 30.

Mrs. H. W. Champion, wife of the Gov ernment Secretary of Papua, returned to her home at Port Moresby by the Macdhui from Sydney on July 8.

Dr. Loftus Hills, Victorian geologist, arrived in Fiji by the Mariposa on June 30 to carry out mining investigations at Tavua.

Mr. T. Grills, of Messrs. Siemens (Aust.) Pty, Ltd., sailed from Sydney with his wife by the Montoro on June 17 for Lae, New Guinea. He later went by ’plane to the property of Upper Watut Gold Allu vials N.L. to erect a water turbine in con nection with Upper Watut’s hydro-electric scheme.

Mr. E. J. Ifould, who has extensive plan tation interests in the Sepik district, New Guinea, sailed from Australia for Boram by the July Macdhui.

Mr. Walter D. Mason, of Fibres Limited, left Sydney for Port Moresby, Papua, with his wife, by the Macdhui early in July.

Fibres Ltd., of which Mr. Mason is engineer, is concerned with the project to erect pulp mills and manufacture paper pulp from the Kurukuru grasses of Papua and New Guinea, Mr. S. H. Gander, Seventh Day Adven tist missionary, who is stationed in the Upper Ramu country, returned to New Guinea by the last Macdhui after several months’ leave in Sydney.

Mr. R. W. Robson, F.R.G.S., editor of the “Pacific Islands Monthly,’’ who is on a three months’ visit to the Central Pacific groups, arrived at Suva, Fiji, by the Monowai from Western Samoa on July 17.