Keable's Old Home

Letter to the Editor.

IN your issue of April appears an inter esting article by Mr, J. D. McComish under the heading “Road-side Signs in Tahiti”.

After * dealing with the school opened many years ago by Monsieur Souvy and explaining the quaint sign over the gate way (2 _4_ 2 = 4) at Punaauia, he goes on to mention the house of the late Rob ert Keable, the author, at Papeari. He says: “Since his death the house has fallen into disrepair, and the formerly well-kept grounds are a wilderness of weeds”, etc.

I understand that this was the case; but when I was in Tahiti in July, 1936, Mr. Allan Cross had acquired the pro perty and had set about the restoration

of the house and grounds. Whether Mr.

Cross is still there I do not know but I feel sure that, if so, it must by now have become a very beautiful home.

The outlook across the bay to the pen insula of Taiarapu is charming, and its historic association with the late author are all aiding the new owner in making it one of the show places on that en trancing island.

I am, etc.,

B. H. Edgell.

Tasmania, 3/5/1938.

Dr. J. Schuy, who recently obtained a diploma at Hamburg Tropical Institute, Germany, arrived in New Guinea in April to join the Sacred Heart Mission at Vunapope, New Britain. He was accompanied by his wife, who is a trained nurse.