The Late Jack Hides
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Letter to the Editor.
AS one closely associated with the late Jack Hides, please permit me to thank you for your very fine apprecia tion in July “P.1.M.” Your sketch brought out not only the gallant quali ties of the dead explorer, but also those human traits which make such men all the more lovable to understanding hearts.
I know that Hides had critics; it would be impossible for a local lad of his age to achieve fame suddenly and soar starward as he did without causing some bitterness in the minds of some of his contemporaries.
But his true friends —those who, like yourself, knew the man as he was, will always cherish his memory as a very fragrant thing. May he sleep well.
I am, etc..
Alexander Rentoul
The Residency, Misima, Papua.
Miss M. Sharpe recently arrived in Fiji from New Zealand to join the Methodist Mission staff She is now training Fijian teachers at the Davuilevu in stitution.