About Islands People

Miss Margaret Devitt, of the New Guinea Mission, has completed the me moirs of the late Canon Tomlinson, covering his 45 years’ service in Papua.

Mr. H. S. Mount, of Suva, was absent from Fiji between August 3 and 26 attending the Australian Dental Con ference.

Miss J. Christopher, of South Aus tralia, sailed from Sydney by the Macdhui at the end of August to join the nursing staff of the Methodist Mission in New Britain.

Rev. R. Hanselmann, of the American Lutheran Church in New Guinea, recently issued, through the Lutheran Book Con cern, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A., an illus trated pamphlet entitled “In the Jungles of New Guinea,” giving his impressions of the flora, the fauna, and the natives.

It tells of his experiences with the latter, and of the work of the Lutheran Mission in the Mandated Territory.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Isom, of the Melanesian Mission Press, Solomon Is lands, will sail from England by the Narkunda on October 15, after spending long leave in Europe. They will spend a month in Australia and arrive back in the Solomons in December.

Mr. G. Bright, superintendent of the Suva Fire Brigade, who has been in New Zealand on leave, returned to Fiji by the August Aorangi.

Miss Elsie Smith, who has been a missionary in Fiji among the girls at the Indian Orphanage conducted by the Methodist Mission, arrived in Sydney by the August Monterey from Suva. After spending a few weeks’ furlough in Vic toria, she departed for India, where she will undergo a period of study at the Language School in Lucknow.

Archdeacon R. de Veil, who has been at Rabaul, New Guinea, for a number of years, has advised the Melanesian Mis sion that be cannot return to the tropics at the end of his present leave, which is being spent in England.

Mr. Arthur Bunting, M.L.C., of Samarai, Papua, who has been in Aus tralia receiving medical attention, re turned to the Territory by the last Macdhui. Mr. Bunting’s health is still bad—he arrived at the wharf to join the Macdhui in an ambulance.

Rev. M. G. Wilmshurst, B.A., who sailed from Sydney by the Niagara on September 2 to join the Methodist Mission in Fiji. He will work among the Indian population at Ba.

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