Growth Of A.W.A.

Success in Manufacture

T'HE profits of Amalgamated Wireless -*■ (Australasia) Limited (which con trols radio communication in the South Pacific, and half of which is owned by the Commonwealth Government) in creased by £3,000 during last financial year.

This now is a huge organisation and is notable for its efficient management and control. Its radio network and services are familiar to all dwellers in the Central and Western Pacific.

It is interesting to note that a rapid advance has been made in recent years by this Company in the field of manu facture. The Company produces in Aus tralia all kinds of radio equipment, and its apparatus and appliances are now being sold all over the world in sucessful competition with the products of the big gest companies and best brains in Europe and America. The two newest passenger liners in the South Seas—the Kanimhla and the Awatea —carry A.W.A. equipment.

No less than 1,100 persons are employed in the A.W.A. radio-electrical works at Ashfleld, Sydney—described as “an Aus tralian factory in an Australian garden.”

The buildings, which are on the site of the factory which once produced the notorious Australian Six motor-car, are surrounded by lawns and gardens, and, seen from the Parramatta-road, make a delightful picture.

M iss J. K. March, principal of the Girls’

School conducted by the Methodist Mis sion at Vunairima, New Britain, returned to Rabaul from furlough by the Montoro from Sydney on December 2. During her period of leave she paid a short visit to Fiji to study educational methods there.

Miss Ivy Wilson, who has completed four years’ service with the South Sea Evangelical Mission at Wanoni Bay, San Christoval, in the Solomon Islands, reached Sydney by the Malaita on De cember 3. She is on five months’ leave which will be spent in Victoria.

Mrs. F. Schober, of Nukualofa, has ar rived in Sydney with her children, Bern hard and Margaretta, and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Alfred Page (Lefagaoalii) at Centennial Park. It is 12 years since Mrs. Schober was last in Sydney.

M iss Marie Elliott, of Wellington, New Zealand, passed through Sydney in De cember on her way to Papua, where she will be married in January to Mr. John Simpkin, a young Englishman, who is a plantation owner about 40 miles from Port Moresby.

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Allison, who have been spending the winter months with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thorpe, at Thursday Island, returned to Australia by the No vember Wandana.

Crown Prince George Taufa’ahau, of Tonga, left Sydney on December 12 to spend his holidays at Nukualofa, On his return to Australia he will enter the Arts Faculty of Sydney University, and will also study law.