About Islands People
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Rev. O. J. Brady, diocesan missioner of the Australian Board of Missions in Victoria, sailed from Sydney for Samarai, Papua, by the Malaita on July 10. After inspecting A.B.M. stations, he will return to Australia in October.
Captain R. A. Williams, master of the Melanesian Mission’s yacht Southern Cross, went on short furlough recently when the vessel visited New Zealand.
Captain D. H. Cambridge, of Auckland, relieved him and took the Southern Cross around N.Z. ports.
Father Überto Van Lamsweerde, a bearded young Dutch nobleman, who be came a priest, arrived in Sydney from Europe by the Esquilino on July 8. Mem ber of an ancient family and holder of a barony, he will spend the rest of his life working among the natives in New Guineia.
Mr. Eric J. Brabham, of the British Australian Lead Manufacturers Pty. Ltd., sailed from Sydney on business by the Neptuna on July 14. Mr. Brabham, who is an expert on fungicidal paints and timber and fabric preservatives, will visit Port Moresby, Salamaua, Lae, Wau, Wewak, Madang, and Rabaul.
Mr. G. A. Joy, British Resident Com missioner in the New Hebrides, accom panied the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (Sir A. Richards) on his tour of the Condominium on board the Leith at the end of June.
Rev. E. C. Leadley, of the New Zealand Methodist Church in 8.5.1., arrived in Sydney by the Malaita on July 3 with his wife, en route to N.Z. on furlough. They are stationed at Roviana.
Mr. H. Norris Hiskens, an elderly New Zealander, arrived in Sydney from Nor folk Island, where he has lived for 10 years, by the Morinda on July 6.
Mr. C. S. Sharp, who has been a teacher in the Fiji Government for a number of years, arrived in Australia by the Aorangi in June to take up an appointment as advertising manager of a Sydney broad casting station.
Mr. George Pistorius, an American who is making a study of Polynesian music, arrived in Sydney by the Niagara in July. He has visited Hawaii, Tahiti, and the Marquesas.
Mr. Ken Garden, who has been for some time with the Ward Williams ex pedition in Papua, arrived in Sydney from Port Moresby by the Macdhui on July 10. He will leave shortly for New Guinea to take up a position as a pilot on the Morobe goldfield.
Mrs. Gabrielle Lawson, wife of Mr.
Eric Lawson, manager of W. R. Car penter & Company’s copra store on Rotuma Island, Fiji, arrived in Sydney by the Niagara early in July on her way to visit her parents in Queensland. She will return to Rotuma at the end of the year.
Sister Mary Edmee, a Catholic mis sionary, who has been working in the Solomon Islands for 23 years, arrived in Sydney on July 3 by the Malaita, on a holiday.