About Islands People

Mr. L. J. Davis, who originally formed Mandated Alluvials N.L, which is actively seeking gold in Papua, returned to Sydney with his son by the September Montoro, after inspecting the Com pany’s properties near Port Moresby.

Mr. Ronajd G. Speedie, a well-knowr Assistant Resident Magistrate in th; Papuan Public Service, who retired re cently on superannuation, has accepter a position on a plantation at Domara, in the eastern end of the territory. He and his wife left Port Moresby in September by the Veiya to set up their new home on the estate.

Captain and Mrs. Irving Johnson, of Gloucester, Mass,, U.S.A., arrived at Thursday Island in September in their schooner-built yacht Yankee. They are on a world tour with a party of Ameri can university students, and they went on to Bali, D.E.T., from Thursday Is.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnston have iust had their book “Westward Bound in the Schooner Yankee” published by Messrs.

Robert Hale, dealing with a previous 18 months’ trip through the Pacific and the East Indies, Rev. and Mrs. C. M, Rich, of the Lon don Missionary Society in Papua, sailed from Sydney for Samarai by the Macdhui in September after furlough spent in England. They are stationed at Tsuleilei.

Mrs. Ethel Clapp arrived in Sydney from Norfolk Island by the Morinda on September 29 to spend a month’s vaca tion with friends. She has lived on N.T. for 40 years, and has never before visited the mainland.

Mr. J. Quintrell, underground manager for Cuthbert’s Misima Goldmine Ltd., Misima Island, returned to Eastern Papua after furlough in Australia by the Macdhui in September.

Mr. D. G. Ball, Inspector of the N.Z.

Department of Education, paid a short visit to Western Samoa by the Matua during September.

Mrs. Jim Bowring, of Newcastle, N.S.W., reached Sydney on October I by the Macdhui with her two children, Diana and Tony, after visiting her mother-in-law, Mrs. A. Bowring, of Edie Creek, New Guinea.

Mr. W. W. Bolton, M.A., of Papeete, whose scholarly writings on the early history of Tahiti and French Oceania are well known to readers of the P.I.M. He has spent 17 years in the South Seas.