New B.P. Trading Station
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In The Solomons
Mrs. Minnie Ethel Kennedy-Wood, one of the oldest Europeans in Fiji, died in Suva Hospital in September, aged 70. She spent the greater part of her life in the Colony and, before going to Suva nearly 40 years ago, resided for a long time in the Rewa district, where her husband was manager of the Waimanu Hotel.
Mr. T. V. Lowney, of the Papuan Public Service, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Native Affairs, Port Moresby. Mr. Lowney, for a long time, was a well-known figure on the official staff at Government House, where for 11 years he acted as a personal clerk to Sir Hubert 4 Murray and the official secretary, Mr. Leonard Murray. The transfer means promotion for Mr. Lowney —but he left the happy atmosphere of Government House very reluctantly.
A NEW trading station was opened a few months ago at Marovo Lagoon, Central Solomon Islands, by Messrs. Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd. Photographs show.—Top: Side view of the store and copra shed. Bottom: Bag ging copra that has been brought In by native canoes.