Islands Travellers
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TOP. —Left: Mr. E. S. Ruthven returned to Suva, Fiji, by the “Mariposa” at the end of May, after six months’ holiday in Australia. He has sugar and mining interests at Lautoka, and has been in the Colony for 37 years. Bight: Mr.
E L. Spencer, an official from the Sydney office of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., left Sydney on May 26 by the “Mariposa” to inspect the company’s plantations and mills in Fiji.
BELOW. —Left; Very Rev. Father Bertin, of the Marist Mission, left Sydney for Noumea, New Caledonia, by the last “Pierre Loti”. He will be engaged in missionary work at Noumea before leaving for one of the outer stations. Right; Mrs. F. A. Bentley, whose husband is in the Fiji Transport Department, returned to the Colony recently after five months in Australia,