About Islands People

Major H. S. Robinson, General Secre tary of the Melanesian Mission, has been elected to the council of the Pacific Is lands Club in Sydney.

Mr. H. Burges, A.W.A. wireless operator at Rabaul, New Guinea, reached Sydney on August 8 by the Montoro. He was met by his fiancee, Miss Daphne Bowman. Mr. Burges has received much praise by Rabaul people for the way in which he stuck to his post under dif ficult conditions during the recent vol canic eruptions.

Sir Henry Scott, K.C., of Suva, who was one of Fiji’s official representatives at the Coronation in England in May, is due to arrive in Sydney with his wife by the Otranto from London on August 25. They will leave for Fiji early in September. Sir Henry was born in Fiji, and was educated at Sydney Grammar School. He has been a member of the Bar in Suva since 1899. He has been president of the Suva Chamber of Com merce, Mayor of Suva, a member of the Executive Council of Fiji, and is a mem ber of the Legislative Council. He has also been Acting Attorney-General, and is a life member of the Royal Empire Society.

Mr. L. R. H. Waring-Flood, who has been the Rotuma representative of Messrs. T. E. Page and Co. Pty. Ltd., was in Sydney during August on leave, with his wife and two children, Rosamund and Anthony. It is probable that he will be transferred shortly to the Solomons or New Guinea.

Mrs. E. L. Leembruggen, wife of the Resident Commissioner of Fanning Is land, Central Pacific, arrived in Sydney by the Monowai on July 31. With her daughter, Miss Margaret Bentley (who is a student at Hopewood House, Syd ney), she sailed for Fiji early in August to spend a short holiday before con tinuing on to Honolulu, Hawaii, to join the inter-island boat for Fanning Island.

The marriage will take place at Suva on September 3 of Miss Josephine Power- Collins, of Wellington, New Zealand, to Mr. William Alexander Milne, health inspector at Suva. When Mr. Milne has completed his present duties in Fiji, he will leave for Edinburgh to continue with a medical course. The romance is the culmination of a recent cruise to Fiji when Miss Power-Collins met her fiance for the first time.

Mr. Arthur Peck, of Melbourne, who at the end of last century was a member of a gold-seeking expedition to Madang, New Guinea, on board the 47-tons schooner Dove, visited Port Moresby, Papua, in July. The Dove expedition was a failure; no gold was found, four of the seven members died of malaria, and, on the return voyage, the schooner was wrecked. Mr. Peck, who is now 82 years of age, journeyed through the Central Pacific groups in 1929 in the yawl Utiekah.

A son was born at Vila, New Hebrides, on July 24, to Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Paton, Presbyterian missionaries on the island of Ambrim.

Mr. A. C. Turnbull (Acting Adminis trator of Western Samoa), with a party that included Chief Judge Morling, Mr.

D. R. A. Eden (general manager of the N.Z. Reparation Estates), and Mrs.

Turnbull, paid an official visit to Pago Pago (American Samoa) on board the U.S.S. Ontario on July 29. They returned to Apia on August 2.

Rev. William Green', of Goulbum, N.S.W., who served six years in Papua and eight in Fiji for the Methodist Mis sion, has again offered his services to the Mission Board. He will return to Fiji early next year.

Mrs. D. Irvine, of Rabaul, recently arrived in Sydney from New Guinea. She is now in Victoria, where she will stay for an indefinite period.

Mr. Duncan Ayo, of Allahabad, India, recently arrived in Fiji from New Zea land to take charge of St. Stephen’s Indian school (Anglican) at Vunimoli, Labasa. The former headmaster of St.

Stephen’s, Mr. A. Thakur, has been ap pointed to the new St. Augustine’s school at Wailevu, Labasa.

Monsieur P. Suzor, who was recently succeeded as French Consul-General in Sydney by Monsieur Jean Trimoulet, sailed from Australia for New Caledonia with Madame Suzor by the Pierre Loti on August 6, They will spend some time in the French colony and also in Tahiti before going on to France.

Mr. G. J. A. Moore, manager for Messrs. Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., at Port Moresby, Papua, is at present spending three months’ furlough in Australia with his wife. Mr. W. J. Craig is relieving at Moresby.

Right Rev. P. N. W. Strong (Bishop of N. Guinea) arrived in Brisbane on August 23. He will spend some time in deputation work in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Aus tralia, and will return to Papua after attending the meetings of the Mission Board to be held in Sydney in October.

Mr. J. B. Clark, Director of the Empire Service of the British Broadcasting Cor poration, arrived in Suva on a business visit by the Mariposa on July 29.

Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Williams, ar companied by their eight and a half months old baby Kathlyn, arrived in Sydney by the Cathay on July 22, after completing a world tour. Mr. Williams is shipping representative at Salamaua, New Guinea, for Messrs. Bums, Philp & Co. Ltd. His wife is a sister of the Australian author, lon Idriess. They sailed for N.G. on August 12.

Mr. J. H. Williams, who was Engineer in-charge of the construction of the Rewa bridge, left Suva by the Mariposa on July 29 en route to England.

Rev. R. L. Crampton, who served in the Parish of Crayford, Kent (England), after completing his training at St.

Augustine’s College, Canterbury, has been appointed to Levuka, Fiji, in the Anglican Diocese of Polynesia.

Mr. Alec Mitchell, store manager of Messrs. Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., Port Moresby, received a presentation from the staff on July 26, to commemorate his 25 years of service with the Co. in Port Moresby. Several members, in voicing their high appreciation of Mr.

Mitchell, asserted that the happy rela tions of the staff were due to his co operation and good management.

Mr. and Mrs. George Burton, who were married at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, on August 11, sailed by the Monterey on August 20 for Fiji, where they will make their future home. The bride was formerly Miss Catherine Dewar, of Potts Point, Sydney.

Mr. W. 0. Broad, S.D.A. missionary from Batuna, Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands, arrived in Sydney by the August Malaita, accompanied by his wife and three children Mr and Mrs. George Joyce, who have id d at Thursday S lsland for over 30 arrived ir Svdnev bv the Taining; , ’. *