"Matua" Passenger Fined.
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Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Suva, Feb. 2.
A THROUGH passenger on the Islands motorship “Matua” was fined £5 in the Suva Police Court on January -24 for obstructing the Medical Officer (Dr. D. Macpherson) in the execution of his duty.
The traveller, Mr. W. S. Green, had refused to join the line-up for medical inspection. Going to his cabin, he would not return on deck. When a special message was sent telling him that the 'doctor was waiting he declared the latter could stay there until he was ready to come up. Witnesses said Green behaved in a “truculent manner” to both the doctor and the Captain of the “Matua”.
Dr. H. lan Hogbin, Lecturer in Anthro pology at th,e Sydney University, who is the author of several books relating to Melanesian and Polynesian cultures, is now engaged on a new work dealing with the island of Malaita in the British Solomons. He is president of the Paci fic Islands Club, Sydney.
Mother Athanatius, of the Lady of the Sacred Heart Convent, left Sydney by the “Changte” on January 22 for Thursday Island, where she will be Mother Super ior of the Catholic Mission.