Pacific Travellers

Captain W. Main, of Papua Oil Devel opments, Ltd., who has been in charge of the “Angas” and the “Philis”, recently sailed from Port Moresby, en route to England.

Mr. and Mr. Lai’s Bergstrand, of Bulwa, New Guinea, recently sailed from Sydney for America on furlough. He is district manager of Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., at Bulwa.

hura will return to the Territory after a month in Sydney. Right: Mahura, who arrived in Sydney from Papua with Mr. Abel at the end of July.

FOURTH ROW. —Left: Dr. C. J. Austin left Sydney for Suva, Fiji, by the “Niagara” on August 4. He has just completed 15 months’ furlough, the greater part of it spent in Eng land, and will now resume his duties as head of the leper station on Makogai Island. Right: Mr. and Mrs. L. Osborn left Sydney for Suva, Fiji, by the “Niagara” early in August, after six months’ holidaying in New Zealand and Australia. Mr. Osborn is an officer in the Post and Telegraph Department, Suva.

BOTTOM ROW.—From left to right: Brother John Roberts, Brother Ephren Stephens, Miss Lillian McRae. Father A. Vinols, and Brother James Thrift, who sailed from Sydney for the Solomon Islands, by the “Malaita” on July 23. Miss McRae, who has been studying at Melbourne and Adelaide, will proceed to Pata patuai and take charge of the Marist Mission Hospital there. Father Vinois, who returned to Faisi, B.S.I., after six months’ rest in Sydney, has been engaged in mission work for 32 years. Brothers Roberts, Stephens, and Thrift will be associated with anew Marist school at Tulagi.

TOP.—Left: Dr. A. J. May, Government medi cal officer at Samarai, Eastern Papua, arrived in Sydney by the “Montoro” on July 28, on furlough. Centre: Rev. J. w. Burton, General Secretary of the Methodist Missionary Society, left Sydney by the “Niagara” on August 4 on an inspection trip to Fiji. He will also inves tigate some new projects in regard to educa tion, before returning to Sydney on September 5. Right: Mr. A. F. Kyle, Assistant District Officer of the Chimbu-Mt. Hagen district. New Guinea, arrived in Sydney by the July “Mon toro”. He will spend three months’ furlough in Australia before returning to the Mandated Territory in October.

SECOND ROW.—Left: Mr, G. W. Lupson, Port Moresby contractor, planter, and storekeeper, arrived in Sydney by the “Swartenhondt” on August 4 for a short holiday. He will return to Papua in October. Right: Miss Betty Harper and her mother, Mrs. Phillip Harper, arrived in Sydney from Suva, Fiji, by the “Niagara” on July 29. Miss Harper will shortly be mar ried to Mr. Kelvin Moulton, of Macknade, Nth.

Queensland. Mrs. Harper will return by the next “Aorangi” to the Colony, where Mr. Har per is Government Medical Officer at Lautoka.

THIRD ROW.—Left: Mr. N. S. Cotter, Sydney solicitor, left Sydney for Vila, New Hebrides by the “Morinda” on August 4 to spend a short holiday with his mother. Centre: Mr.

Russell Abel, of the Kwato Mission, Eastern Papua, arrived in Sydney by the “Montoro” on July 28. He was accompanied by a native boat boy, Mahura, whom he brought to Syd ney to receive further education. Mr. Abel, a member of the famous family of missionaries who have conducted the mission station on Kwato Island for 45 years, has been engaged in mission work for 12 years. He and Ma-