About Islands People

Mr. Percival Bert Guy Jackson, a 22years-old direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, leader of the Bounty mutiny, arrived in Sydney from Norfolk Island on May 6 on his way to take up a posi tion at Burren Junction, north-west New South Wales.

Mr, J. T. Allen, of Amalgamated Wire less (A/sia) Ltd., Rabaul, New Guinea, has left the Company’s services after 20 years’ association with wireless in the Territory. He went to New Guinea from Woodlark Island, Papua, where the R.A.N. has a high-power naval radio station. After serving at Madang and Kieta stations, he was 12 years in charge of the Bitapaka station and later at the new station in Rabaul.

Mr. James Stuart, a former District Commissioner in Fiji, died recently in Scotland at the age of 64. He entered the Fiji Service first as an officer in the Armed Native Constabulary and rose to be Senior D.C. in the Colony. He retired in 1930.

Mr. Ronald Field, of Fiji, married Miss Margaret Steadman, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Steadman, of the Metho dist Mission, Suva, Fiji, in Adelaide, South Australia, on April 10, Mr. E. P. Holmes, M.L.C., Secretary of the Lands Department in New Guinea, departed from Sydney with his wife for Rabaul by the Tanda in April.

Rev. Lionel E. Saville, a Methodist missionary at Cakaudrove Fiji, died from typhoid fever in Taveuni Hospital on May 7, at the age of 31. A native of Toowoomba, Queensland, he had been in Fiji for four years.

Mr. Karl Nagy,' a staff engineer of Guinea Airways Ltd., arrived in Sydney from New Guinea by the Neptuna on April 27, on his way to his home in Budapest on furlough Mr. Rudolph Wolff, one of New Guinea’s oldest residents, died in Rabaul on May 3. He was born in Germany in 1867, and arrived in New Guinea in 1892.

His wife and baby were murdered by natives in 1902. The funeral was attended by representatives of all sec tions, including the Administrator and officials.

Miss Blackwood, a well-known English anthropologist, arrived in Port Moresby recently, and spent a few days in the Gulf Division wdth Mr. and Mrs. F. E.

Williams. Miss Blackwood has just com pleted nearly one year’s study of the Kukukukus—the semi-nomadic people who live in the New Guinea mountains behind Wau.

Mr. Percy R. Hinds, a well-known trader, who formerly was stationed at Daru, and who for some time past has been in business in Port Moresby, has settled at Kukipi, on the Gulf of Papua, where he has acquired a trading site.

Mr. Hinds, besides trading, will engage in recruiting for the various companies that have recently started operations in Papua.

Mr. William Thomas Rabone, a son of the late Rev. William T. Rabone, pioneer Methodist missionary in Tonga, died at Ashfield, N.S.W., early in May. He was born in Tonga 63 years ago.

Captain Edward Stenberg, aged 71, one of the best known mariners in the South Seas, was washed overboard and drowned when, during a storm, his ketch went ashore on the eastern coast of New Zea land on May 13. He was bringing the 50ft. ketch Yvonne from Sunday Island, in the Kermadecs, to Auckland.

Mr. Albert Griffiths, a Sydney miner, returned to Australia from New Cale donia by the Van Spilbergen in April, after seven years in Noumea.