About Islands People

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Aidney left Fiji by the Aorangi in January on leave. Mr.

Aidney, who has been manager of the well-known Suva firm of Sturt, Ogilvie, Ltd., for some years, is joining the firm of Williams and Gosling, Ltd., on his return, owing to the liquidation of Sturt, Ogilvie, Ltd.

Mr. D. C. Bates, Patrol Officer in the N.G. Service, sailed from Sydney for Rabaul after leave by the Macdhui on February 4. He was accompanied by his wife.

Rev. Father Bourdier, of the Roman Catholic Mission, died at Suva on January 16. Father Bourdier, who would have been 80 on January 30, was bom at Nevers, France, and went to the Colony many years ago as a layman. He later entered the priesthood, and was ordained in 1906. In his early life he was a civil engineer, and his knowledge in this direc tion was of great value to the mission, and many churches, schools, convents and presbyteries, including the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Suva, stand as testi monials to his work.

Miss A. Mac Alpine, secretary to Mr.

R. D. Bertie, of Port Moresby, Papua, died suddenly on January 13. She was a popular member of Port Moresby’s ‘‘Younger Set” and will be greatly missed in the community. Her father, the late Mr. A. Mac Alpine, was formerly a planter and plantation inspector for the British New Guinea Development Company.

Mr. N. G. Imlay, of the Papuan Treasury Department, is at present spending long leave in Australia with his wife. At the expiration of his furlough h e will retire from the Public Service on superannuation after over 20 years’ ser vice in the territory.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fenner arrived in Sydney in January with their daughter Barbara, after -completing a world tour.

They are at present holidaying at Bowral, N.S.W., and will return to their home at Rarawai, Fiji, in March.

Rev. F. G. Lewis, Chairman of the Methodist Missionary Society in New Britain, arrived in Sydney by the Nankin in January to attend the Annual Meeting of the Methodist Mission. Early in Feb ruary he became suddenly ill and is at present in the War Memorial Hospital, Waverley.

Rev. R. Godfrey, who spent some years at Lolowai, New Hebrides, for the Melanesian Mission, has accepted an appointment to the parish of Aramoho.

Wanganui, New Zealand. He made many friends in Southern Melanesia but was compelled to resign his Archdeaconry on account of eye trouble, and recently has been residing in Australia.

Miss A. E. Samuels, of the Melanesian Mission, who has been on furlough to her home at Ashburton, New Zealand, will sail from Sydney for the New Hebrides by the March Morinda. Before being transferred recently to Lolowai, on Aoba Island, she was for 12 months at the native girls’ school at Torgil, in the Banks Group.

Rev. C. W. Churchward, M.A., accom panied by his wife and their four children, arrived in Sydney from Suva by the Aorangi on January 23. He has been 16 years in Fiji, lately being stationed at Rotuma Island, and has now come to Australia to take up residence in New South Wales.

Mr. E. B. Bignold, Crown Law Officer and Registrar of the Central Court in Papua, arrived in Australia at the end of January on three months’ furlough.

Mr. F. N. Ashley, Resident Commis sioner in the British Solomon Islands, returned to Tulagi by the Malaita from Sydney on January 23, after spending furlough in Great Britain.

Mrs. Morris McCullagh, of Rarawai, Fiji, reached Sydney by the January Aorangi to spend holidays with her father, Mr. M. Duncan MacDonald, of Edgecliff, Sydney.

Mr. Frederick Schaml, of Rabaul, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney by the January Montoro. After being translator with the Lands, Surveys, Forests, and Titles Department for some years, he had now resigned from the N.G. Administration.

Mr. J. R. Clay, of Messrs. J. R. Clay and Co. Ltd., a well-known Papuan firm of traders and merchants, arrived in Sydney by the Macdhui on January 28 to join his family on a holiday visit.

Mrs. E. M. Zahel, who has held the position of Government Superintendent of Badu Island, Torres Strait, for 28 years, is at present staying in Sydney at the Hotel Australia, after a visit to New Zealand.

Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Lennox and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Pemberton, Canadian entomo logists, sailed from Sydnev for Rabaul by the Macdhui on February 4 to carry out scientific work in New Guinea.

Miss L. M. Lea, Matron at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, left Suva by the Aorangi on January 15 on vacation leave.

Mr. A. B. Thomas, manager of the Suva branch of the Bank of New South Wales, will leave the Colony in March, on leave, prior to transfer.

Mr. W. Heritage, who during recent years has been manager of the Tulagi branch of Messrs. W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Solomon Is.) Ltd., has been transferred to W. R. Carpenter & Co.’s London office as assistant manager.

Monsieur Chazalon, of the New Galedonia Gendarmerie, who has just returned from leave in France, has been appointed to Ouvea Island, replacing Monsieur Cosseron, who will sail for Marseilles on furlough in April.

Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Thompson, who went to England some two years ago after serving at Wanigela, Papua, for the New Guinea Mission, will return to the territory this year for further work.

Sir Henry and Lady Marks, accom panied by Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Marks, left Fiji in January by the Aorangi on holiday.

Mr. E. W. Bonwick, consulting mining engineer, who has been inspecting pro perties on the Astrolabe goldfield in Papua, returned to Sydney in January.

Mrs. Alport Barker, wife of the Hon.

Alport Barker, of Suva, arrived in Syd ney by the Aorangi in January for a short holiday.

Dr. Hj S. Evans, of the Fiji Govern ment medical service, returned to the Colony from leave on January 14.