of Nauru

Death of Mrs. Jack Young, of Nauru

THE first company of Nauruan Girl 1 Guides has lost its first captain, after having been organised a year by the Island Commissioner, the Admini strator’s wife, Mrs. Garsia. Their captain Mrs. Jack Young, was stricken down sud denly with cerebral haemorrhage, and,

after being unconscious for a few hours, passed away early in September, 1937.

Her funeral was conducted by Rev. C.

Walch, L.M.S., with whom she had worked in the little European Sunday School. The Nauruan Guides formed a guard of honour, each one feeling that she had lost a personal friend.

During her life’s short span, Mrs.

Young had, at intervals, spent several years in the Pacific Islands, and was deeply interested in the Pan-Pacific Con ferences, and in many problems of the South Seas. She had filled different vacancies in the Methodist Mission in Fiji, conducting a kindergarten for In dian children for two years, and working among older Indian girls in a Suva School, Some years later, she organised a successful kindergarten for European children in Suva.

She entered into all her work with the same spirit of helpful enthusiasm. Her year’s work among the Nauruan girls had been preceded by five years of work among Girl Guides in Melbourne and British-Indian girls in Suva. She was esteemed for the simple sincerity of her character and her bright, happy nature.

Mr. Basil Hill, who has been practising as a barrister in New Guinea for the past three years, had his name transferred, at his own request, from the roll of barristers to that of solicitors, bv the Full Court of Australia in November.

Messrs. Malcolm E. Willoughby, Wil liam S. Christopher, and Richard T.

Skinner have been appointed cadets in the New Guinea Administration.

Mrs. Young, at the end of the group, photographed with some of her Girl Guides.