About Islands People

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Brien and their family arrived in Sydney during Novem ber from Port Moresby. Mr. Brien has been in the Papuan Public Service for over 20 years as Chief Clerk and Inspec tor of the Native Affairs Dept., and he is now on furlough prior to retirement on superannuation.

Mr. C. T. Lonergan, a New Guinea pilot, who has been engaged in mining for four years, arrived in Sydney by the November Macdhui to join Australian National Airways.

Captain A. Mclntyre, for many years wharfinger and stevedore for Burns, Philp & Co’s steamers and overseas ves sels at Port Moresby, Papua, died in the European Hospital on November 14. He underwent an operation for appendicitis the previous day. Capt. Mclntyre is sur vived by his wife and son, who are at present in Sydney on holidays.

Mr. J, H. L. Waterhouse, well known in many South Seas groups, who is at present in charge of the Nodup Native School in New Guinea, married Miss Dorothy Dowling at Rabaul on October 24.

Mr, R. D. Blandy, Assistant British Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides, arrived in Sydney from Eng land with his wife by the Strathmore early in November. They sailed for Vila by the Morinda on November 11.- Mr. R. Sutherland, of the Dept, of Agriculture, Wellington, returned to New Zealand by the Matua on November 1, after a visit to the Cook Islands.

Mr. R. M. Farlow, A.D.O. at Buka Pas sage, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney with his wife and baby, Jan, by the November Malaita, on three months’ leave.

Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Bundle, of the Nor folk Island Cable Station, who were highly esteemed by residents of N. 1., arrived in Australia by the November Morinda. As a member of the N.I.

Executive Council, Mr. Bundle played a prominent and useful part in public affairs.

Mrs. Margaret Quintal, a direct descendant of one of the Bountv mutineers, died at Waihi. New Zealand, on November 1 in her 63rd year. WPh her husband, Mr. James Robert Quintal, she went to N.Z. from Norfolk Island in 1901 on the Melanesian Mission’s boat Southern Cross. In 1932, she went back to Norfolk, returning to Waihi only three months ago.

Mr. Peter Euchtritz, of Sum Sum Plantation, Kokopo, New Guinea, mar ried Miss Rita Brain, of Bondi, N.S.W., in Rabaul on October 18.

Mr. J. F. Williams, of Western Samoa, married Miss Katherine Nora Turner, who arrived by the October Matua from N.Z., at Apia Protestant Church on October 25.

Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Aitchison arrived in Sydney on furlough by the November Macdhui. Mr. Aitchison is in the N.G.

Administration and has been stationed in the Ramu District.

Mr. L. A. Maguire, well-known in New Guinea, who recently has been at Port Moresby as acting accountant at the office of Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., has been appointed B.P. manager at Misima Is land, Eastern Papua.

Mr. T. Robson, District Commissioner at Tuasivi, Savaii, left Western Samoa in October for furlough in New Zealand and England. During his absence, Mr. J.

Bower, D.O. at Aleipata, will act as D.C. at Tuasivi.

Monsieur Yves Martin, son of M. Emil Martin, proprietor of the electric light and power station at Papeete, Tahiti, married Mademoiselle Antonina Barn bridge, eldest daughter of M. Georges Bambridge, mayor of Papeete, at the Bethel Chapel, Papeete, on October 23.

Mr. Adolph Brewster, eldest son of the late Mr. Paul Joske, of Suva, Fiji, who was born in Melbourne in 1854, died in London in October. He entered the Fijian Colonial Service in 1884, and after acting as Stipendiary Magistrate and Resident Commissioner, he was ap pointed as an official member of the Fiji Legislative Council in 1908. He retired in 1910, and assumed by deed poll the name of Brewster (his mother’s maiden name). Mr. Brewster was the author of “The Hill Tribes of Fiji” and other books.

Mr. C. A. Banks (managing director of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd.), accom panied by Mrs. Banks, will arrive in Sydney from U.S.A. on November 29. On December 22, Mr. and Mrs. Banks and Mr. L. V. Waterhouse will leave Sydney for New Guinea, on a general inspection of properties there.

Mr. F. J. Berne, well-known through out the Islands after having snent 16 years in various Pacific groups, is eager ly awaiting the completion of his new guest house, “Bernly.” at Potts Point, Sydney. Januarv 1 is named as the opening date, and Mr. Berne will be glad to welcome and accommodate any of his Islands friends who visit Sydney.

Mr. G. O. Higgins, manager in Papua of Papua Oil Development Ltd. (which has a staff of over 50 Europeans and several hundred natives engaged in the search for oil in Papua) arrived in Townsville. Nth. Queensland, on Novem ber 14, in his Co.’s Sikorsky amphibian.

He had flown from Papua in order to connect with the airmail services to Vic toria. for a consultation at the head office of his organisation (Shell Co.) in Mel bourne.

Mr. Thomas L. Slatter, of Vavau, Tonga, died in Suva, Fiji, on September 28. He arrived at Suva by the Matua and was on his way to the War Memorial Hospital when he collapsed and died.

Born in Australia 48 years ago, he went to Fiji, and for 20 years was associated with Messrs. Robbie Kaad & Co., Levuka, and Messrs. Burns Philp (S.S.) Co. Ltd.

Later he went to Tonga as B.P. manager at Haapai. Then, after a term at Vavau, he began trading on his own account and since 1926 had conducted his own business.

Mr. W. C. Abbie, who successfully ap pealed to the High Court of Australia in connection with a conviction recorded against him in New Guinea, returned to the Morobe goldfield in October and was very heartily welcomed at a social func tion organised by the miners of Edie Creek on October 23.

Mr. George F. Gee, of Keravat, New Guinea, married Miss Jean Robson, of Woolbrook, N.S.W., at St. George’s Church, Rabaul, on October 16.

Mr. R. Hicks, Warrant Officer at Wau, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney in November on eight months’ furlough.

Mr. Justice Gore, of Port Moresby, Papua, was in Sydney during November on long leave.

Mr. Jack W. E. Lomax, of Lever’s Pacific Plantations Pty. Ltd., 8.5.1., arrived in Sydney in November en route to England on furlough. At the com pletion of his leave, he will be transferred to the west coast of Africa to manage one of Lever’s palm-seed oil producing plantations.

It was stated in the “N.Z. Herald” of November 2 that the following officials of the Administration service had re signed and would return to N.Z.: —Mr.

Malone, treasurer; Matron Roberts, general hospital; Mr. Paramore, Police Department; Mr. Duff, Native Office.