About Islands People

Mr. N. Penglase, Assistant District Officer at Wau, and Mrs. Penglase, arrived in Sydney from New Guinea by the “Macdhui” on April 15 on their way to Victoria to spend furlough. During his absence, A.D.O. Roberts is relieving on the goldfields.

Mr. and Mrs. M. Portley, of the Thursday Island School, returned to T.L in March after sick leave in Queens land.

Mr. Peter Swanson, surveyor in the N.G. Administration, came South to Australia by the April “Neptuna” to seek medical attention.

Mr. John Wilson, Melanesian Mission representative in New Zealand, has re signed to enter College House, Christ church, to study for the ministry.

Mr. S. G. Andrews, M.A., Dip. Ed., re cently arrived in Fiji from New Zealand to assist at the Methodist Mission’s School for Boys at Toorak.

Mr. Noel Owers, of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., Golden Ridges, New Guinea, joined his wife and children in Australia in April on three months’ holiday.

Mother Margaret and Sister Made leine, of the Order of the Community of the Cross, Bunana, British Solomon Is lands, left Sydney in March by the “Orcades” for London.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bodger and their child reached Sydney from New Guinea in mid-April by the “Neptuna”. They were en route to their homeland, New Zealand. Mr. Bodger is an executive of N.G. Goldfields Ltd., at Edie Creek.

Dr. P. T. Harper is a popular medical practitioner, who has been in the Fiji Group for 20 years. He served in the War Memorial Hospital, Suva, for 7 years; as chief medical officer at the leper station, on Makogai, for nearly 3 years; and he is now district medical officer at Lautoka, where he has been for 8 years. Dr. Har per served in the Great War. The Indian population of Fiji, in particular, hold him in high regard.