Mrs. Allen Innes

IITRS. ALLEN INNES, having disposed of the hotel at Salamaua, New Guinea, which she established about 1927 and conducted efficiently and profitably, has settled down in her new home at Alola Avenue, Vaucluse, Sydney. Her new residence has been built in the Is lafids style and is named “Salamaua.”

Mrs. Innes was noted for several things —especially her unvarying kindness, her hospitality, and her ability as a writer.

Some very vivid impressions of goldfields conditions in the early days were from her tireless pen. She had been ti'ained as a nursing sister and, without doubt, she saved the lives of several men in the pre hospital days. Numerous were the down and-out miners whom she succoured — often when they seemed to be in the last extremities of fever.

The Rahaul Times recently paid this well-deserved tribute to her: Mrs. Innes’ departure will be a loss to Salamaua, as she entered into everything, was always the first to welcome any new woman there and introduce her to the older residents, and during her residence in Salamaua has made no less than 80 bouquets for brides going there to be married. Her knowledge of nursing and advice in general has been of great as sistance to many, particularly to young mothers, Mrs. Innes can also talk most interestingly of her trip abroad. Besides her many other interests, this energetic woman has found time to indulge her flair for things literary.

Mr. George Allen Innes is remaining in New Guinea for the present, looking after his business, the Salamaua Trading Com pany.