About Islands People

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Proprietor - - Campbell M. Smith

About Islands People

Mr. A. T. Acton, who during recent years has been manager of the Levuka branch of Messrs. Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., has been transferred to the head office of the firm in Suva. Having resided in Levuka for five years, he had done much splendid work as secretary of the Levuka Chamber of Commerce and as a committee-man of the local Bowling Club.

Towera, a London Missionary Society worker, who has been 13 years in Papua, arrived in Sydney by the January Montoro en route to his home in the Ellice Islands.

Miss C. G. Fairhall, of the London Missionary Society’s Hospital at Port Moresby, Papua, is at present spending leave in Sydney.

Mr. D. C. Harman, has been appointed secretary of the Torres Strait Hospital, succeeding Miss G. Hennessey who has resigned.

Mr. Frank Keys, of the Commonwealth Bank staff at Rabaul, New Britain, sailed for the East on holidays by the Nellore at the end of December, Rev. J. Berlin, of the Marist mission, returned to Australia in December after an inspectional visit to the Mission’s stations in Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji.

High Chief Faumuina Fiame, leader of the Samoan Mau, took up duties as Supervisor of Native Police at Apia in December.

Senor Bosch Barrett, a Spanish lawyer, arrived in Sydney from Vila, New Hebrides, by the Pierre Loti on December 27.

He is President of the Joint Court of the Condominium.

Mr. J. C. H. Perry, Seventh Day Adventist missionary at Aoba, arrived in Sydney from the New Hebrides’by the Morinda at the end of December.

Pastor F. Otto Theile, Director of the Lutheran Mission in New Guinea, returned to his home in Brisbane in December after a visit to Europe and the United States. He will shortly make a tour of the Mission’s stations in New Guinea.

Mrs. L. D. Doughty, an old resident of Fiji, died in Suva on December 23. Mrs.

Doughty, who went to Fiji from England many years ago, had lived for a long time in the lonely Yasawa Group where, since the death of her husband, she carried on a copra plantation.

Captain G. F. Zimmer, who was at one time a member of the Papuan Service and who now is goldmining on the Tiveri headwaters, returned to Port Moresby from Sydney by the Montoro on January 13, after three months’ holiday in Australia.

Mr. H. Beilby Evans, of Rabaul, returned to New Guinea in January by the Tanda. Mr. Evans is now running his own plantation on the Bainings, and is residing in Rabaul. In recent years, he has obtained practically a monopoly of the business of exporting whole coconuts to Australia.

Mrs. E. Knox, of Rabaul, arrived in Sydney from New Guinea by the Tanda on December 23 to make her home permanently in Australia. Her husband, Hon. E. Knox, Director of Public Works in New Guinea, has resigned from the Public Service and will in future be