About Islands People

Mr. R. V. Alford, accountant at the Bank of New South Wales in Samarai, Papua, joined the Tanda on October 22 for a holiday trip to the East.

Rev. R. V. Grant, L.Th., of the Method ist Mission, who is stationed at Cape Pearson, Papua, arrived in Sydney on furlough by the Macdhui on November 5.

Mr. D. B. Wallace, of Guinea Airways mechanical staff at Lae, New Guinea, married Miss Phyllis Trader, of Adelaide, at Port Moresby early in October when the bride arrived from Australia by the Macdhui.

Mr. R. W. Douglass, of th© National Bank of Australasia, Thursday Island, sailed by the October Changte for Aus tralia on transfer.

Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Rich, of Samarai, arrived in Sydney by the Macdhui from Papua on November 5. Mr. Rich is As sistant Resident Magistrate at Samarai.

Mr. J. J. Peddie, Bacteriologist in the Western Samoan Medical Department, returned to Apia with his wife from fur lough in New Zealand by the October Maui Pomare.

Mr. R. Reye, of the Seventh Day Ad ventist Mission in Western Samoa, re turned to Apia from a holiday visit to Australia and New Zealand by the Matua on October 27.

Mr. Henry Stephenson Edgar, J.P., who has been Acting Administrator of Nor folk Island, and acting chief magistrate at various times, returned to N.I. from Sydney by the Morinda on October 29.

Mr. Torres Cohen has resigned from the Thursday Island Town Council, his place being taken by Mr. J. I. Dunwoodie.

Mr. Cohen has left T.I. to reside with relatives in Townsville, North Queens land.

M. Siadous, Governor of New Caledonia, will leave the French Colony by the Ville de Strasbourg for Marseilles, France, on December 3. His successor, M. Marches son, is expected to arrive via Australia on December 7.

Mr. Arthur J. Vogan, F.R.G.S., a well known Pacific traveller, writer, and archaeologist, has been notified that his book entitled “Lemka Days,” dealing with his experiences in Fiji, is about to be published in England.

Mr. S. A. P. (“Toby”) Clarke, a popular resident of New Guinea, died in Wau Hospital on October 18, aged 42. At the time of his death he was medical assistant at Edie Creek for New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. Mr. Clarke originally joined the Expropriation Board in New Guinea in 1921, becoming attached to the health branch. Six years later he entered the service of the Melanesia Company, serv ing until 1932, when he became an officer of the N.G. Public Service. Last year he joined the staff of N.G.G. Ltd.

Miss E. L. Cheeseman, an English en tomologist, who has been in the interior of New Guinea for 10 months, arrived-in Sydney by the Macdhui on November 5 on her way back to the British Museum.

London. She penetrated the old Cyclops mountain range in Dutch New Guinea, and also visited Lake Sentani, which, once salt, is now fresh water. Miss Cheeseman has travelled extensively alone in the South Seas. Eleven years ago she col lected specimens in the Society Group, and has since visited the New Hebrides, and Papua.

Rev. G. Stallan, of the London Mission ary Society’s station at Fagalele, Tutuila Island, American Samoa, has been ap pointed principal of the L.M.S. College at Malua, in Western Samoa.

Professor Harrison Smith, formerly of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is now a resident of Tahiti, left Papeete recently on a short visit to the United States to attend the Tercentenary of the Harvard University at Cambridge, Massachusetts, of which he is a graduate.

Dr. Fred. J. Williams, Government Medi cal Officer at Samarai, Eastern Papua, arrived in Sydney by the November Mac dhui. He sailed by the Maloja on Nov ember 14 for London, where he intends taking a post graduate course.

Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Nottage left Raro tonga, Cook Islands, by the Maunganui for New Zealand early in November. For eight years they had resided in Raro tonga, where Mr. Nottage was Senior Fruit Inspector in the C.I. Agriculture Department.

Mr. A. J. Bates, who has been 36 years in the Papuan Public Service during the latter part of which he has been Chief Clerk in the Government Secretary’s De partment at Port Moresby, arrived in Sydney by the Macdhui in November. He is on long leave for nine months, at the end of which he will retire from the Ser vice.

Mr. A. J. Marshall, a Sydney zoologist who is associated with the Oxford Ex ploration Club, returned to Australia from New Guinea by the Macdhui in November after making a preliminary reconnaissance for an expedition from England which, it is hoped, will explore Central N.G. in 1937 or 1940.

Dr. Walter J. Williams, lately British Consul at Tahiti, and one of the oldest European residents in French Oceania, returned to Papeete in October after a lengthy sojourn in California, where he had been receiving medical treatment.

Mr. L. J, O’Malley, Patrol Officer in the Papuan Administration, who has been in Australia since August, returned to Port Moresby by the Macdhui on November 12 from Sydney.

Two well known residents of Levuka, Fiji, “snapped” on the steps of the Ovalau Club—Mr.

Cyril King and Ratu Charlie, one of the most popular Chiefs in Fiji.

H.M.A.S. Moresby was in Port Moresbj In mid-October and sailed for Samara; whence she will be engaged in survey work between Shortland Reef and Dawson Island.