Former Gilberts’ Official
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May Return From Africa
From a Special Correspondent
Ocean Is., June 4.
IT is reported here that Mr. H. E.
Maude, M.A., who was transferred last year to Zanzibar, East Africa, after ser ving as Administrative Officer in the Gilbert and Ellice group for some years, is to return to these islands in a senior official capacity at an early date.
This is a move which will give much satisfaction to all concerned, for Mr.
Maude had been engaged for some time
prior to his departure on the compilation of a comprehensive history of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony, with very full notes on the ethnography of the native peoples. His return in the near future will no doubt enable him to complete this task. Mr. Maude is a keen student of native affairs and history in the Pacific.
Mr. R. H. Corney, labour inspector for the British Phosphate Commissioners at Ocean Island, arrived in Melbourne in June en route to New Zealand on* fur
lough.