[Islands People Notes]

Much ceremony and time are spent over the exchange of the tokens and it may be several days before they depart.

Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Nicholson, of Kokebagu Plantation, Kemp Welch, in the Central Division of Papua, arrived in Australia on several months’ holiday by the Macdhui in mid-December.

Mrs. F. G. Lewis, wife of the Chairman of the New Britain District of the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia, arrived in Sydney from Rabaul with her young son by the Neptuna on December 15. She left immediately for Melbourne to spend a long vacation with her other