About Islands People

Queen Salote, of Tonga, and the Prime Minister and Royal Consort, Prince Tugi, will leave Sydney by the Awatea on Sep tember 25 for New Zealand. In the Waikato the Queen and her husband will be guests of the young Maori king, Koroki.

His Excellency Sir Arthur Richards, Governor-designate of Fiji, is expected to arrive in the Colony by the Matua on November 27.

Mr. Arthur Mayhew, C.M.G., C.1.E., M.A., secretary to the Advisory Committee on Native Education in the British Colonies, London, arrived at Suva from Honolulu by the Niagara on August 28. He was

accompanied by the Hon. James Russell, M.C., 8.A., Director of Education for Fiji, who was returning from the international conference on Education of Pacific Peoples recently held at Honolulu. Mr.

Mayhew, who was for many years en gaged in educational administration in India, and who has visited almost every British colony during the past few years, will spend three weeks in Fiji, examining the system of education.- It is expected that he will give a good deal of attention to investigating the educational work be ing carried out amongst the Indian popu lation of Fiji.

Dr. Bernard Mishkin, anthropologist, from Columbia University, U.S.A., arrived in Australia by the Monterey on Septem ber 7 to carry out research in New Guinea. Messrs. S. M. Reed and J. W.

Whiting, former students of Professor Peter H. Buck, at Yale, have already left for New Guinea on a similar mission, and will make their headquarters in a village on the Sepik River.

Dr. S. M. Lambert, chief of the medical research staff of the American Rockefeller Foundation, of Suva, Fiji, arrived in Apia in August accompanied by Miss E. Ten nant, of the Foundation’s nursing service.

They are travelling extensively on Upolu and Savaii, studying medical and sani tary conditions, with special regard to child welfare work.

Miss Edith Twyford, Methodist Mission nursing sister, left Sydney for Papua on her return to the Salamo Hospital by the Montoro on September 9. It is almost two years since she left Salamo after a stay of six years, and she has now gone back for an indefinite period.

Mrs. O. M. Parr, of the Samoan Educa tion Department, left Apia in August by the Maui Pomare for New Zealand. Mrs.

Parr, who has done much valuable work in the re-organisation of the European and native schools in Western Samoa, was farewelled by the Government Malifa and Avele schools and presented with suitable souvenirs in appreciation of her work.

Miss Nita Inman, a teacher of the Aus tralian Board of Missions stationed at Taupota, Papua, who has been on fur lough in Victoria, spent some weeks In Tasmania early in September in the in terests of the New Guinea Mission’s, work in Papua.

Mr. Major Harper, well-known planter and trader of Mandoliana Island in the Solomons Group, has been in Australia on holidays since May last. After spending a few months in Sydney, he went on to Adelaide where, for several weeks, he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stafford- Jones, of Kensington Gardens. Before leaving for Tulagi by the September Malaita he paid a short visit to Queens land.

Mr. P. Kodanda Rao, M.A. travelling re presentative of the Servants of India Society, arrived in Suva by the Niagara on August 28. After spending a year in the study of race relations at Yale Uni versity, U.S.A., under a Carnegie Fellow ship, Mr. Rao visited British Guiana to investigate the social conditions of the Indian population there. He stopped over at Honolulu to attend the Conference on Pacific Education before proceeding to Fiji to inquire into the educational and social conditions of the Indian population.

Mr. Rao, who is a quiet, cultured type of Indian gentleman, has held many import ant posts in India. After spending a month in Fiji, he will nroceed to New Zea land and Australia, t<r deliver lectures and will return to Poona via Rabaul and the East Indies.

Mr. George Bailey, an old identity of Norfolk Island, died at the age of 87 on August 25. An Englishman, he spent some years in New Zealand before mak ing his way to Norfolk Island where he resided for 40 years. He married a daughter of Charles Christian, a descend ant of the Bounty mutineers. When the Melanesian Mission had its headquarters on Norfolk Island, Mr. Bailey was ap pointed blacksmith; and he was asociated with the Mission, particularly as a musi cian, throughout the whole of his life.

Rev. W. A. Dickie, of the Melanesian Mission, who has been stationed for two years at Pawa school on the island of Ugi in the Solomons Group, reached Syd ney on furlough by the Malaita on Sep tember 11.

Mr. Russell, Legal Adviser to the Go vernment of Siam, has been appointed Chief Police Magistrate in Fiji in succes sion to Mr. A. Hallam Roberts, who was recently transferred to Zanzibar. Mr.

Russell is expected to arrive in Suva in October.

Mr. Francis E. Williams, of Papua, and Professor A. P. Elkin, of Sydney Univers ity, returned to Australia from Hawaii by the Monterey on September 7. Mr.

Williams, who is Government Anthropolo gist in Papua, returned to Port Moresby with his wife by the Montoro from Sydney on September 9.

Mr. Joseph Williams, of Levuka, Fiji, married Miss Rosaline Jane Rosa, daught er of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Rosa, of Kaibu, Yacata Island, on August 8. The mar riage ceremony, performed by Rev. Mr.

Bock, linked two of Fiji’s oldest pioneer ing families.

Rev. D. F. Boorman, L.Th., departed from Sydney for the Methodist Mission’s station at Levuka, Fiji, by the Mariposa, on August 19.

Mr. J. W. Matley, manager of Waiganl plantation, Eastern Papua, arrived in Sydney with his wife by the Montoro from Port Moresby on September 1.

Mr. Frederick Godfrey Palfreyman, of the Department of Education, New Guinea, resigned from the Public Service on August 6.

Mr. H. Sabben, Mechanical Engineer in the Fiji Public Works Department, ac companied by Mrs. Sabben, left Suva on leave by the Niagara on August 28.

Mr. Robert Boulter, British Trade Com missioner for New Zealand, arrived in Western Samoa from Tonga by the Tis naren in August. He is investigating trade conditions in the various Pacific groups.

Mr. A. Lewis Milner, who has been teaching on behalf of the Melanesian Mis sion at Pawa, Ugi, in the Solomons, passed through Sydney in September on his way to spend furlough in New Zealand. He joined the mission from New Zealand in 1934, and was for a time on Aoba Island.

Rev. Canon S. W. Williamson, rector of Tocumwal Anglican Church, N.S.W., re turned to Melbourne by the Triaster on September 9, after one of his periodical visits to Ocean Island.

Mr. James Duthie, 55, of Nausori, Fiji, died on August 23, following a short ill ness. He had been in the employ of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd., at Nausori, all his life.

Mr. J. G. Grant, manager of Messrs.

Walter Horne and Co. Ltd., of Suva, re turned to'Fiji by the August Aorangi.