About Islands People

Sir Hubert Murray, K.C.M.G, (Lieuten ant Governor of Papua), who has been on a visit to England, left London on his way back to Port Moresby by the Rajputana in July. In Singapore he joined the Mar ella for Australia and is expected to reach Sydney on August 23. His Excellency will leave for Papua in September.

Mr. L. Pierre Ledoux, a representative of the Department of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History, returned to Australia on July 31 by the Malaita, after spending five months in Kaup village, near the Sepik River, New Guinea. Mr. Ledoux, who is a Bachelor of Science of the Harvard University, will publish the results of his research when he returns to the United States.

Mr. Harold Rabone, a grandson of the Rev. Stephen Rabone, the pioneer Metho dist missionary in Tonga, whose centen ary was observed this year, has been elected a member of the Polynesian Club of Sydney. Mr. Rabone has lived at Nor folk and Lord Howe Islands, and is now residing in Sydney.

Captain N. Paoli has taken over com mand of Messageries Maritimes Islands steamer Laperouse from Monsieur Vigier.

M. Paoli was chief officer on board the Dupleix which was engaged on the Syd ney-Noumea-New Hebrides run before the Laperouse entered the service. When the Laperouse reached Sydney on July 28, Madame Paoli and her two children disembarked to make their home for two years in Australia.

Mr. Leslie V. Waterhouse, technical director of Placer Development Co. Ltd. who has been visiting England and the Continent, will leave London on August 19 by the Queen Mary for New York.

After several weeks in San Francisco he will depart for Sydney by the Mariposa on September 15, arriving in Australia on October 5. Mr. Waterhouse originally intended to return to Australia via Manila and New Guinea, but in order to confer with his associates in America he was compelled to alter his itinerary.

Dr. P. Gilbert Rahm Liers, 0.5.8., pro fessor of biology at Fribourg, Switzerland, who has been travelling the world for two years under the auspices of the Rocke feller foundation Institute, arrived in Australia by the Gorgon in July. Last year he spent some time in the South Seas, particularly at Easter Island, study ing parasitology.

Mr. C. H. Hopewell, who was a well known resident of Suva, died on July 16.

Going to Fiji in his youth, Mr. Hopewell was for a time associated with Messrs.

Henry Marks and Co. After a period as manager of the Levuka branch, he went into partnership in a copra plantation with Mr. W. R. Carpenter (now Sir Walter). Of late years he had been in the Government service with the Customs and Stores Departments.

Mrs. I. Champion and her child sailed from Brisbane for Port Moresby by the Montoro on July 31. She is the wife of Mr. Ivan F. Champion, Assistant Resident Magistrate in the Papuan Administra tion, who is now leading an expedition through an unexplored portion of Central Papua.

Ratu Mosese Dranibaka, chieftain of the Ra Coast, Fiji, is ill with possible pneumonia at the Seventh Day Adventist Sanatorium, Wahroonga. The chief ar rived in Sydney by the Mariposa on August 10.

Miss lima Edwards, of Norfolk Island, arrived In Sydney on August 4 by the Morinda to spend a short holiday in Aus tralia.

Mr. J. P. B. Webster, chairman of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., is a passenger to Australia by the Orford which is due in Sydney on August 26.

Mr. and Mrs. Val. Horton, accompanied by their young son, Glen, returned from Cairns to New Guinea after furlough in Australia by the Montoro on August 4.

Mr. Horton is manager at Madang for Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. Limited.