N. Guinea Administrator

Returns

mHE Administrator of New Guinea, Sir JL Walter McNicoll, and Lady McNicoll, after four months’ furlough—spent partly in the Far East and partly in Sydney—sailed for Rabaul, from Sydney, by the “Tanda”, on January 14.

New Year honours included K.C.M.G., for Sir Harry Luke, Governor of Fiji; C.8.E., for Rt. Rev. Dr. C. J. Nicolas, S.M., Roman Catholic Bishop of Fiji; and M.8.E., for Mr. H. E. Maude, an ad ministrative officer in the Gilbert and El lice Islands.

The gift of two supporters of the Melanesian Mission, an electric light plant has been installed at the mission hospital at Fauabu, 8.5.1. The plant gives a powerful light and there is a sufficient margin of power to equip an X-ray plant.