About Islands People

Mr. R. G. Speedie, Assistant Resident Magistrate at Kairuku, Papua, is now on leave prior to retirement from the Administration on June 1 on super annuation. He joined the Public Service as a cadet in 1918, and is the youngest officer in Papua yet to retire on superannuation. It is understood that Mr. Speedie is contemplating planting and on his return to Papua probably will settle on the mainland opposite Yule Island.

Mr. A. Cant, of Morovo Lagoon, Solo mon Islands, arrived in Sydney by the April Malaita. He will pay a visit to England which he left over 25 years ago, before returning to the Solomons.

Rev. W. E. Moren, of the Anglican Chaplaincy at Apia, Western Samoa, re turned to the territory from a visit to Suva, Fiji, by the yacht Corsair in March.

Dr. C. M. Dawson, of Apia, sailed from Western Samoa in March to spend four months’ holiday in New Zealand. Dr.

F. F. R. Carrick, formerly of the Tongan medical staff, is acting as locum tenens for Dr. Dawson during his absence. While he is in N.Z., Dr. Dawson will discuss the terms of his proposed appointment as eye specialist and con sulting surgeon at Apia Government Hospital with Dr. Watt, Chief of the New Zealand Medical Service at Welling ton.

Mr. R. W. Robson, F.R.G.S., Editor of ‘‘Pacific Islands Monthly,” sailed from Sydney by the Montoro on April 7 on a business visit to Papua.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Feetum, of Madang, where Mr. Feetum is Officer-in-Charge of native police, arrived in Sydney on fur lough with their small daughter Shirley by the Montoro from New Guinea on April 1.

Mr. K. S. Upton, manager of the Grand Hotel at Thursday Island, arrived in Sydney on furlough by the Taiping on April 4.

Miss Ivy Lapthorne, 0 f the Methodist Mission, returned to Fiji for further work among the Indians, by the Mariposa at the end of March.

Dr. H. W. Jack, Director of Agriculture in Fiji, arrived in New Zealand on fur lough at the end of March by the Matua from Suva. Mr. C. R. Turbet, Senior Government Veterinary Officer, is acting as Director of Agriculture.

Captain V. Brisson, the well-known navigator, who a short time ago travelled across the Pacific in a small boat, accom panied by a young Tuamotu native named Roo (Niki) Williams, has left Australia on his return to Tahiti, via Noumea, where he will make his home in future.

Captain Brisson disposed of his extensive Polynesian library before leaving Sydney.

Mr. W. R. (“Bo”) Titford, an English man who was well known in New Guinea, where he had been for some years attached to the Public Works Depart ment, died in Rabaul on March 3. He was a member of the A.N. and M.E.

Force sent to New Guinea during the Great War,

Well-known Wau residents on the verandah of the Wau Hotel, New Guinea. Left to right: Mrs.

L Hunter, Miss Alice Allen, Mr. H. R. Wales, Mrs. F. Thomas. —Photo by J. D. O’Neill.

Mr I). Hax G’Connor, who was accepted as a Patrol Officer by the Papuan Administration, arrived in Port Moresby from Australia on March 24 by the Macdhui. He left the following day for Daru, in the Western Division. Mr.

O’Connor has had tropical experience in the British Solomon Islands.