Shipping Manager

Mr. F. Wallin Retires

Long Years as Islands Shipping Manager

QUIETLY and unobtrusively, as has been his way always, Mr. Frederick Wallin, on November 30, retired from the position of Islands Shipping Manager of Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd. Ho took with him the goodwill of the “big firm”, which he has served so loyally and well for 47 years, and the best wishes

of many hundreds of Sydney business men with whom he had come frequently in contact.

Mr. Wallin was 20 years old when he joined the B.P. service in 1890, and for 17 years he was connected with the vari ous branches in Queensland —Brisbane.

Townsville, and Normanton. He dealt with lire and marine insurance in Bris bane; was accountant in Townsville; branch manager in Normanton; and in 1907 he came to head office, in Sydney.

It was Mr. Wallin’s destiny that he should direct the Islands shipping ser vices—one of the most harassing jobs at 7 Bridge Street. Just as an example, consider what this quietly-spoken, grey haired man had to deal with in his last year of office disorganisation through the Macdhui fire; ditto through the Rabaul eruption; ditto through the Nej)tuna mishap; ditto through the B.P. fire in Rabaul. Let any man, even if he knows nothing of shipping, imagine the effect upon finely-drawn steamer schedules of any one of those calamities.

But Mr. Wallin possessed just the right temperament to deal with troubles and accidents, “Keep your mind concen trated on the subject you are dealing with, he said to the writer once. “Keep a grip on things—don’t dither around-

Clarify your points. Don’t let your mind butterfly off into abstractions—and this applies to accounts and statistics as well as to letters and reports. Let your ideas and argument run smoothly through your paragraphs, in proper sequence.

“As for the problems of life—well, most of them were created by human agency, and therefore they can be solved by human endeavour. To be successful one must be happy as well as diligent in one’s work, and one must keep fit. I owe much to the Rugby football I played in my youth—there, as in one’s work, the team spirit is indispensable. Also, I p’ayed tennis ahd had a part in sailing, swimming, rifle-shooting. And, now, motor-touring! ”

Mr. Wallin left Sydney in December for Queensland on a leisurely wander.

Rev. A. W. Guy, of Bunama, Papua, who is in Australia on furlough, has advised the Methodist Mission that he cannot return to the Territory owing to the ill-health of his wife.

Dr. E. E. L. Haworth, who had been a dentist on Norfolk. Island for seven years, died on November 25, aged 75.

Mr. F. Wallin

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