About Islands People

Miss A. Mills, B.Sc., of Plnikidu, New Britain, who has served with the Meth odist Mission for nine years, is at pre sent spending long furlough in New South Wales.

Miss Mildred Free, formerly of Nukua lofa, Tonga, left Sydney in July for Suva, Fiji, where she will reside in future.

Mrs. Harold B. Lange, of Apia, West ern Samoa, who has been visiting rela tives in New Zealand, returned to Apia by the July “Matua”.

Mr. William G. King, formerly of Tam worth, N.S.W., married Miss Jean Fors ter, of Suva, early in June. The cere mony, at the Holy Trinity Pro-Cathed ral, was performed by the Bishop in Polynesia, Rt. Rev. L. S. Kempthorne.

Captain William Ross, a veteran mas ter mariner of the Pacific, died in Auck land, New Zealand, on June 28, aged 89.

In 1884 he entered the Niue Island trade and continued in it for 25 years, with the barquentine “Ysabel”. During the early stages of the Great War, Captain Ross played a prominent part in nego tiating the purchase of premises and stocks of German firms operating in Tonga. It was he who hoisted the Brit ish flag at Haapai on July 24, 1916.

Mr. Mistry Muthan, a mason, who had been in Fiji since 1882, died at Suva in June, aged 93.

His Honour Sir Owen Corrie, Chief Justice of Fiji, left Suva on leave by the “Niagara” in mid-June.

Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Campbell, accom panied by their three children, returned to Fiji by the “Monowai” from Sydney on July 6, after furlough in Australia.

He is a member of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co.’s staff at Ba.

Mr. C. R. Chaseling, well-known Aus tralian aviator, has joined the staff of Carpenter Airlines. He spent June in New Guinea gaining experience of local conditions, flying with Mandated Air lines.

Members, and their families, of the C.S.R. Co., who are booked to sail for Fiji after leave in Australia by the “Mariposa” on July 21 include: Mrs. T.

N. R. Carew and family (Labasa); Mr.

W. Finlayson (Ba); Mrs. J. G. Davis (Lautoka); and Miss Betty Craddick (Lautoka).

Mr. G. C. Holmes, one of the most popular men of the New Ireland district, New Guinea, was entertained at a smoke concert, in Kavieng, by about 30 friends, in June, and presented with a wardrobe trunk. Mr. Holmes has left the Terri tory, to reside in England.

Mr, F. A. Roades, manager of the Burns Philp plantation at Ysabel, Solomon Is lands, who has been in Sydney on fur lough, is now convalescent, having un dergone hospital treatment for a duo denal ulcer.

Lieutenant-Colonel Gaffiero has been appointed head of the Health Department in New Caledonia, replacing Lt.-Colonel Gorjux.

Mr. “Tommy” Horne, of Suva, Fiji, head of the well-known firm of Walter Horne and Co. Ltd., who has been undergoing treatment for his health in Sydney for some considerable time, is now very much better, and expects to return to Fiji at no distant date. He camplains that he is on a “hay diet”, and that the ruthlessness of his doctor destroys many of the savours of life; but, nevertheless, he is in very good form and appears to have quite recovered the health he lost a couple of years ago.

Rev. HAROLD J. SHORT, F.R.G.S., of the London Missionary Society, who is one of the best-known men in Papua, both as a missionary and as a writer of delightful little sketches on native life, is at present on furlough in England, from his station at Hula. On April 27, he took part in a television broadcast from Alexandra Palace and was the first minister of religion to be seen and heard on the air. Reports from many quarters indicated that the clearness of vision and speech was excellent. —Photo: “Australian Christian World.”