About Islands People

Mr. J. Craig, Colonial Treasurer in Fiji, left Suva by the March Niagara en route to England on leave. Mr. A. W. L. .Savage will act as Treasurer until he returns.

Sir Raphael Cilento has been appointed honourary professor of Tropical and Social Medicine in the University of Queensland. Now Federal Director- General of Health and Medical Services, Sir Raphael is well known for his medical work in Melanesia.

Mr. T. R. Victor, a prominent Victorian mining engineer who is well known in Fiji and New Guinea, sailed for Port Moresby from Sydney by the Montoro on April 7. In company with Mr. F. M.

Murdoch, he will report upon Mandated Alluvials N.L.’s property in Papua.

Mr. Jack Bailey, manager of the Southern British Insurance Co. Ltd.* sailed from Sydney for Rabaul on a three months’ business visit by the Tanda on April 14. He is well known in the Mandated Territory, having been ac countant for Messrs. W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd. at Salamaua for some time.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Isom, of the Melanesian Mission Press at Guadal canal, Solomon Islands, reached Sydney by the Malaita on April 9. They sailed for England by the Strathaird on the 17th, and will spend long leave in the Old Country, returning to 8.5.1. early next year.

Mr. William T. Miller, Airways Super intendent of the United States Depart ment of Commerce, arrived in New Zealand in mid-April in connection with the inauguration of a regular trans pacific air service from ’Frisco to the Dominion. He will later visit Australia.

Rev. A. H. Wood, accompanied by his wife and family, arrived in Sydney from Tonga on April 5. Mr. Wood has com pleted 13 years’ service with the Methodist Mission in the Friendly Group and has now come to Sydney to have his six children educated. He has been ap pointed Methodist minister at Concord

N.S.W.

Monsieur Martial Aumont, Chief Clerk of the Central Administration of the Colonies and Chief of the General Ad ministration of Finances at Papeete, Tahiti, has been named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Mr. Thomas Stewart Cameron, a former pilot in New Guinea with Messrs.

W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd., was killed in Brisbane on March 28 when the Stin son air liner which he was flying crashed just after taking off from Archerfield aerodrome. He was 29 years of age.

Miss V. Cliff and Miss N. Furness, of Melbourne, were stranded at Norfolk Island at the end of March when the cruise liner Katoomba sailed without them. They are being cared for by Mr.

A. R. Tindale, manager of Messrs. Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. at N.I. until the Morinda will take them to Australia on April 29.