Administrator Of New

Guinea

THE Administrator of New Guinea, Sii Walter McNicoll, and Lady McNicoll, were guests of honour at the meeting of the Pacific Islands Club in Sydney on December 6. Other guests included Mr.

G. F. Collings, who described “Film Mak ing in Tahiti”, and Mr. W. R. Humphreys, Resident Magistrate in Port Moresby.

Sir Walter McNicoll interestingly des cribed his tour since he left Rabaul late in September on four months’ furlough.

He had been to the Philippines, Japan, China, Cambodia, the Malay States and he had returned to Sydney through the Dutch East Indies.

Sir Walter and Lady McNicoll will spend about a month in Australia before returning to New Guinea.

Mr. F. W. D. Dansey, who had spent nearly 30 years in Fiji, died in the Col onial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, on November 15. For 10 years, until he retired in 1933, he was delivery clerk for the Union S.S. Co. at Suva.

Colonel Dix, accompanied by his wife and daughter, arrived in Sydney from Noumea, New Caledonia, by the Novem ber “Pierre Loti”. He is connected with the meat canning industry at Ouaco.

Rev. Leonard Hurst, London Mission ary Society, secretary for Australia and New Zealand, departed from Sydney on November 19 by the “Orontes” to attend the International Missionary Conference now being held at Madras, India. He was accompanied by Pastor Julepi, of the Ronorono Native Institution, Beru, Gilbert and Ellice Group. Julepi is a Samoan chief of fine type, a big, im pressive figure, dignified and regal in bearing: for 36 years he and his wife, Nei Sera, have been working in the Gilbert Islands as missionaries for the

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