[Islands People Notes]
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Increased copra prices were responsible.
British and French planters were now in a much better position, he said.
Mr. and Mrs. Joy visited their son in Hobart and returned to the New Hebrides in January.
Mr. L. S. Tracey, of the Audit Department of the N.G. Administration, Rabaul, who has been on a holiday trip to China and Japan, spent the remainder ,of his vacation in Victoria in January.
Rev. P. J. Thomas, of the Australian Inland Mission, sailed from Sydney for Thursday Island by the Changte on January 9.
Mr. Gilbert Renton, the well-known cordial manufacturer of Rabaul, returned to New Guinea late in December by the Nellore from a seven months’ around-theworld tour. He was accompanied by his wife and young son.
Miss Sheila Gale, wfio for two years has been in charge of a school at Penang, Northern Viti Levu, arrived in Sydney by the Niagara on December 26.