About Islands People

Right Rev. Thomas J. Wade (Bishop of the Northern Solomon Islands) arrived in Sydney after visiting Europe and the United States by the Mariposa on August 10. He attended the annual meeting of the Marist Medical Society on August IS. Bishop Wade will shortly return to his headquarters at Kieta, Bougainville.

Mr. T. Flower, who has been well known as a builder on the New Guinea goldfields and who left Australia recently with the object of engaging in building enterprises in India, returned to Australia in July. He was not satisfied with the prospects in North-west India and de cided to return immediately to the South

Seas. He departed from Sydney for New Guinea by the August Neptuna.

Right Rev. Henry Newton, who retired last year from the position of Bishop of New Guinea, is in poor health at present and his condition is causing some anxiety.

Although he had resigned, he has been carrying on his work in Papua and he is at present under treatment at the head station of the New Guinea Mission at Dogura, Eastern Papua. The post of Bishop of New Guinea was offered in June to the Rev. Cecil W. Alderson, of England, who accepted the appointment.

It was announced in July that owing to ill-health Mr. Alderson was compelled to cancel his acceptance. The Bishops of Australia have several other candidates under consideration, and a further ap pointment will be made shortly.

Brigadier-General W. R. McNicoll (Ad ministrator of New Guinea) left Rabaul by the Nellore on August 12 to spend three months’ leave in Australia. Accom panied by Mrs. McNicoll, he will arrive in Sydney on August 20.

Mr. H. J. C. Connolly, geologist of Wes tern Mining Corporation Ltd., sailed from Melbourne by the Monterey on July 18 for Fiji. About seven months ago he out lined a programme of development for the Emperor mine at Tavua, and the purpose of his present visit is to make a survey of the tonnage in sight and check the values of the mine. His report will prob ably be embraced in the annual report of Emperor Mines Ltd., which is due in a few months.

Major George E. Saundars, Sub- Inspector of Police in the British Solo mon Islands Administration, arrived in Sydney on his way back to Tulagi by the Port Townsville on July 31, after an nual leave spent in England.

Mr. F. J. Hennings, who was formerly in the Government Service in Fiji, left by the Strathaird on August 7 on a visit to his former home. Mr. Hennings has taken advantage of cruises to make three trips to Fiji within recent months. Now set tled in Sydney, he is a member of the executive of the Polynesian Club.

Mr. Mason Warner, special travel re presentative of the “Chicago Tribune,” joined the August Maunganui at Welling ton en route for San Francisco. It is his intention to collect material for articles in Rarotonga and Tahiti on his way back to the United States.

The death occurred, late in July, of Mr.

J. C. Irons, manager of the Canadian Pacific Line in Vancouver for 25 years.

He was well-known and highly esteemed in the Pacific Islands ports.

Mr. M. P. Curtain, mining engineer, sailed from Sydney for New Guinea by the Montoro at the end of July to join Oil Search Ltd’s party at Madang.