About Islands People

Mr. R. S. Haynes, director and field nanager of Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Fo. Ltd., will leave Sydney shortly to ?arry out initial work for the Co.’s oil seeking activities in Papua.

Mr. S. G. Masterman, Inspector of Native Labour in the Solomon Islands, vho has been on long leave in England, sailed from Sydney for Tulagi by the Malaita on July 10. Mr. Masterman, jarly last year, purchased a seaplane Tom Australia, but after much prepara ion for the initial flight it was wrecked i couple of miles from Tulagi Harbour vhen it suddenly dived into the sea. Mr.

Masterman intends later to import an >ther seaplane to 8.5.1.

Rev. Father E. Wheeler, of the Society >f the Divine Word, reached Sydney from J.S.A. by the Mariposa on July 12. He vill shortly sail for New Guinea to do nission work at the Society’s stations.

Mr. G. H. Pass, a bank official from labaul, New Guinea, reached Sydney with lis wife by the Malaita on July 3.

Mrs. Freshwater, wife of Mr. H. L.

Freshwater, who has charge of the Melanesian Mission’s agricultural experi nental farm at Pamua, San Cristoval island, 8.5.1., died at the end of May in Melbourne, where she and her husband vere spending furlough. Shortly after ler arrival in Australia, Mrs. Fresh vater contracted a heavy cold, which juickly developed into pneumonia, and ler death occurred after a brief illness, she had been in the Solomons with Mr.

Freshwater since 1928.

Captain Hope Evans, skipper of the L.M.S. auxiliary schooner John Williams V., which he brought out to the Central Pacific from England some years ago, returned home. The vessel is now mder the command of Captain Ernest E.

Kettle.

Miss A. M. Griffin, 8.A., of the Metho dist Mission at Suva, Fiji, joined the July Niagara at Auckland, N.Z., on her way Dack to the Colony. Her return to Fiji had been delayed owing to an accident, but she has now recovered.

Mr. Sydney H. Chance, who for the past 19 months has been acting as Resi dent Magistrate of the Delta Division, Papua, arrived in Brisbane by the Mon toro on June 17. He is now spending four months’ vacation with Mrs. Chance and their two children in Lismore, N.S.W.

Mrs. Chance has been in Australia for some months, having left Kikori last November.

Mrs. Baddeley, wife of Right Rev. W.

H. Baddeley, Bishop of Melanesia, who has been spending some months with her parents at Bishopscourt, Adelaide, Sth.

Australia, sailed from Sydney for Tulagi by the July Malaita. She was accom panied by her young son, Martin James.

Mrs. A. Schmidt, of Rabaul, arrived in Sydney from New Guinea by the Nep tuna on July 5, with her son Ronald.

After a holiday at Randwick, N.S.W., she intends to visit Hong Kong.

Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Dyer, of Apia Observatory, arrived in New Zealand by the Maui Pomare from Samoa on July 6.