About Islands People

Mr. G. L. Beebe arrived in Sydney with his wife and daughter from Port Moresby by the Montoro on November 24. Mr.

Beebe has been in Papua for some time as Chief Commonwealth Auditor and has now been transferred to Canberra, his post in the Territory having been taken over by Mr. R. Mackay.

Dr. Jacques Simon Cramer, who gained his professional training in Scotland, arrived in Fiji recently to be a District Medical Officer, Mr. Joseph Christian, a descendant of Fletcher Christian, leader of the famous Bounty mutiny in 1789, arrived in New Zealand recently from Pitcairn Island by the Remuera. He intends to remain in the Dominion for six months.

Mr. S. G. C. Knibbs, Commissioner of Lands and Crown Surveyor in the Solo mon Islands, returned to Tulagi from leave by the Malaita from Sydney on De cember 12.

Mr. and Mrs. V. Koschade, of the Lutheran Mission Society, arrived in Sydney from New Guinea by the Nov ember Montoro. They later went on to South Australia to spend Christmas with their people at Callington.

Rev. W. A. Dickie, who has been in the Solomon Islands since he joined the Melanesian Mission in 1934, left Sydney on his return to the Group, after fur lough by the December Malaita.

Mr. J. Ward Williams, leader of an ex pedition seeking gold in Western Papua, arrived in Port Moresby from the base camp on the Upper Fly River by his company’s Sikorsky amphibian on December 1. He joined the Macdhui for Australia on December 11. The Sikorsky left Pt. Moresby on December 4 for Lae, New Guinea, to receive an overhaul be fore returning to the Fly base in Papua.

Mr. Roy Vicary, of Cuthbert’s Misima Goldmine Ltd., Misima Island, Eastern Papua, who last year sailed from Vic toria to Papua via Lord Howe Island, with a companion Mr. R. Moffat, in their self-designed and self-built yawl Gitana 11, has become engaged to Miss Norma Russell, of Brighton, Victoria.

Mr. J. H. L. Waterhouse, of the New Guinea Education Department, arrived in Sydney from Rabaul by the Malaita on December 3. Mr. Waterhouse has for some time carried out much excellent work at the native school at Nodup.

Mr. H. G. Carter, director and con sulting engineer of the Rabaul Electricity Limited, returned to Sydney from New Guinea after a business visit to New Britain by the Macdhui on December 16.

Mr. Philip Coote, manager of Messrs.

Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., Rabaul, arrived in Sydney from New Guinea by the Neptuna on December 15. During his absence Mr. L. N. Tribolet is acting as B.P.’s Rabaul Manager.

Mr. D. F. M. Rutledge, Patrol Officer in the Papuan Service, has been ap pointed officer-in-charge of the polite escort attached to Mr. Ward Williams’ mining party in Western Papua. He has relieved Mr. M. J. Healy, who has now been transferred to Kerema, in the Gulf Division.

Mr. R. J. Lever, an .English entomolo gist, who is attached to the 8.5.1. official staff as field research worker, arrived in Sydney in December on furlough by the Malaita.

Mr. J. O. Smith, of Wunawutung Plan tation, outside Rabaul, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney to spend Christmas with his family by the Malaita on December 3.