About Islands People

Mr. C. .1. J. T. Barton, Colonial Secre tary of Fiji, was awarded the C.M.G. in the Coronation honours, announced on May 10.

Captain Booker, master of the Govern ment ketch Melbidir which operates in Torres Strait from Thursday Island, is spending furlough in Brisbane. Captain H. Woodhead is relieving him.

Mr. A. J. Armstrong, a District Com missioner in Fiji, sailed from Suva by the April Aorangi en route to England on leave.

Mrs. Margetts (widow of Rev. J. H.

Margetts, of the Methodist Mission, who served for 22 years in the New Britain District, New Guinea), who has been living in Australia for the past two years, sailed from Sydney by the Montoro on May 15 to spend a few months with friends in Rabaul.

Mr. H. W. Simmonds, F.E.S., Govern ment Entomologist in Fiji, received the award of 0.8. E. in the Coronation honours during May.

Mr. J. R. Clay, of Messrs. J. R. Clay & Co. Ltd., Port Moresby, sailed for Papua from Sydney with his family by the Macdhui on April 28.

Rev. and Mrs. Guy Darke, of St. Paul’s Mission, Moa Island, Torres Strait, re turned to Thursday Island from Australia by the April Merkur on their way back from furlough.

Mr. E. G. Theodore, managing director of Emperor Mines Ltd., who has been on a holiday in Australia, left Australia in May by Imperial Airways to examine a reported new goldfield in Western Borneo. During his absence, Mr. Nils E. Nilsen (manager) is direct ing the operations of the Emperor Co. in Fiji.

Mr. A. J. McGrath, a member of the Norfolk Island Advisory Council, arrived in Sydney by the Morinda on May 6.

Formerly a grazier of Moree, N.S.W., he went to N.I. four years ago on a three weeks’ holiday, but becoming enchanted with the little island he intends to spend the rest of his life there.

Mr. John Beveridge, who has been in charge of the Fiji Government quarantine station at Makuluva for some years, has been appointed a sub-inspector of con stabulary in the British Solomon Islands.

Mr. C. R. Field, the recently appointed Director of Public Works in New Guinea, arrived in Rabaul from Sydney by the April Montoro to take up duties. A returned soldier, he formerly was en gineer in charge of the Public Works Dept, in Western Australia and has had many years’ experience in constructing works of similar nature to those which he will be required to deal with in New Guinea.

Mrs. Heatly, wife of Mr. E. M. Heatly, of Messrs. Morris, Hedstrom Ltd., Fiji, died in Suva on April 26.

Mr. Francis H. Hopkinson, of Mel bourne, married Miss Cecilia Ethel Tibbo, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. V.

Tibbo, of Tavua, Fiji, at Nailaga Church on April 24.

Mr. G. Marston has been appointed superintendent of the Post and Radio Department in Western Samoa. He has had experience in the Cook Islands and the Chathams.

Mr. Bob MacCreath, a well-known miner who spent 11 years in the Morobe District, New Guinea, died in Wau Hospital early in April.

Mn Alfred H. Perry, of New Zealand, married Miss D. A. Hopkinson, of Suva, at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Suva, Fiji, on April 17.