About Islands People

Proprietor: A. J. SAMSON, Formerly New Guinea Public Service

About Islands People

Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Murray, of Lakuramau Estate, Kavieng, New Guinea, reached Sydney by the Macdhui in December. After spending furlough in Sydney, they will visit the East.

Mr. L. G. Usher, who for the past four years has been headmaster at the Levuka Public School in Fiji, left Ovalau on four months’ leave in December, prior to being transferred to one of the other Provincial Schools in the Colony.

Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Boucher, and their daughter, Miss Dulcie Boucher, passed through Sydney in January to join the Narkunda for England, where they will attend the Coronation festivities. Mr.

Boucher is Crown Agent for the Kingdom of Tonga at Auckland, New Zealand.

Miss Brenda Lynch, of Hunter’s Hill, Sydney, will leave shortly for Fiji where she will be married to Mr. Cecil Young, who is on the staff of the Bank of New South Wales in Suva. On her voyage to Fiji, Miss Lynch will be accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carr, of Goulburn, N.S.W.

Mr. L. V. Waterhouse, technical director of Placer Development Ltd. and Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., sailed from Sydney for Port Moresby by the Montoro on January 13. In Papua, he joined Guinea Airways Ford ’plane and flew across to the N.G. goldfield to inspect Bulolo’s workings.

Mr. J. Ward Williams, whose expedition is looking for gold in Papua, returned to the Territory from Brisbane, after spending Christmas in Australia, by the Montoro on January 15.

Mr. G. J. Bridges, manager at Ocean Island for the British Phosphate Commission, arrived in Melbourne in December by the Triaster on furlough, with his wife.

He has been at Ocean Island for 10 years.

Mr. L. G. Vial, of the N.G. District Services Department, recently married Miss Marjorie Strangwood, of Melbourne. They have made their home at Buki, near Finschhafen.

Messrs. O. Wurst and G. Thresher departed from Sydney during December by the Macdhui to join the staff of Bulolo Gold Dredging Limited in New Guinea.

Mr. T. R. Benson, a mining engineer, who has been working in the New Hebrides, arrived in Sydney by the Pierre Loti at the end of December.

Mr. J. W. Austin, auditor for tfce Bulolo Gold Dredging Company, sailed for New Guinea by the Montoro from Sydney early in January.

Rev. James Benson, who was formerly attached to the Community of the Ascension, at Goulburn, N.S.W., sailed for Papua by the Montoro on January 13 to join the New Guinea Mission. He was associated with the same organisation during 1920-21.

Mr. C. E. Ahrens, B.Sc. Agr., who recently was appointed to succeed Mr. B. C. Meek, as principal of the Methodist Mission’s Agricultural College at Navuso, Fiji, sailed from Sydney for Suva by the