"Jimmy" Sim.

Contributed By "Well Wisher”.

FOR one reason and another, the Solomons are losing many of the old timers. The old order changeth .. .

One of the best left us recently, broken in health, in the person of Mr.

James Sim, inspector for Lever’s Pacific Plantations, Pty., Ltd., for the last ten years.

Hailing from Aberdeen, ‘‘Jimmy” (as he was affectionately known and re spected throughout the Solomons) arrived here a real “braw laddie”, 25 long years ago. The group was then just about to enter in earnest upon its plantation development phase, and, as overseer, plantation manager, and finally, inspector “Jimmy” Sim was des tined to play no small part in furthering the progress of his Company and of the group. He saw (and made) plantations emerge from the jungle, grow to maturity, and shed their crops of coco nuts, to be converted into copra in the modern mills which by that time had reared their stacks among the sea of palms.

And now “Jimmy” passes on, esteemed by his staff, and accompanied by the best wishes of everyone in the Islands, to find, we hope, in Australia, the good health he lost in the Solomons.

Wilson Inia, a Rotuman native who is now in Australia doing deputation work for the Methodist Mission, has been nominated to the National Mis sionary Council as a delegate to the forthcoming Conference at Madras, India. Most of his life has been spent at the Methodist educational institu tion at Davuilevu, where he is a teacher.

Mr. E. Y. Crisp, of Steamships Trad ing Co., Ltd., Port Moresby, Papua, is at present spending furlough in Aus tralia.

Mr. Stan Geddes, formerly with New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., arrived at Aitape in February to carry out drilling work for Far Eastern Alluvials.

Nurse D. L. Naughton recently joined the staff of the European Hospital, Port Moresby, Papua.