Notes From Nauru
pp. 23-24 · Read in the full issue
Nauru, Nov. 14.
ARRIVED by the “Triadic”, returning from leave in Australia, were Cap tain W. Preece (“Pop”), the popular harbour-master, and Mrs. Preece; and Mr R. B. Kirk, under-manager of the B.P.C. at Nauru, accompanied by Mrs.
Kirk and daughter.
It is understood that Dr. T. M. Clous ton, Government Medical Officer, who proceeds on leave by next “Triaster”, in tends to return for a further term to Nauru. Dr. Clouston, who has spent four years on the island, holds the golf championship cup for Nauru for 1938.
A one-sided display of fisticuffs be tween two Europeans: a rush of police to the Chinese compound, to quell a mild internal dispute which resulted in one Chinese casualty: the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Bill Bowen; a slight
accident to the popular Don Bates, whose cycle collided with a native-driven car at night; the recent painful illness of Mr. George Nelson, of the junior en gineering staff of the 8.P.C.; an after the-pictures party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Groves to celebrate their wedding anniversary; and the usual round of bridge-afternoons amongst the women-folk: these complete the recent items of local news of interest.
Mr. G. Noack, of the Lutheran Mission, arrived in New Guinea in November by the “Macdhui” after furlough in Aus tralia. Accompanied by his bride, he later went on to the Mission’s plantation at Gizerum.
Esala Delana, a Fijian native who has been in Australia most of this year do ing deputation work for the Methodist Mission, returned to Suva by the “Niag ara” from Sydney on November 24.
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SV rve^ Depart P ent ’ died in th e Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, in November. Born in Fiji, he had been in the Civil Service since 1924.
Mr, and Mrs ; Edmund Hawnt, of Ra-
of many congratulations from* e< Rabaul
residents in mid-November on the arrival of a son, Roderick Fraser.
T , , Miss J. C. Barton, who is now on furlough after a short term of service at Ba, Fiji, with the Methodist Mission, has notified the Board that owing to W reasons she finds it necessary to eure '