The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 July 1939Vol. IX, No. 12

Pacific Travellers

p. 66 · Read in the full issue

TOP ROW.—Left: Mrs. J. D. Thompson sailed from Sydney by the June “Malaita” for Fauabu, 8.5.1., where her husband, Dr. Thompson (for merly house surgeon at Southland Hospital, N.Z.), will relieve Dr. Clifford James at the Melanesian Mission Hospital. Mrs. Thompson is a qualified nurse. Right: Mr W. Pascoe left Sydney for Fiji by the “Monterey” on June 23 to take up a position with a Suva building firm.

SECOND ROW.—Left: Mr. Graham Kerr, well known plantation owner of Santo, New Hebrides, returned to the Condominium by the “Pierre Loti” at the end of June, after spending a holiday in Australia. Right: Mr. George Hancock, who has been in Sydney for the past three months, on furlough, returned to Lingatu Solomon Islands, by the “Malaita” on June 24* He is an employee of Lever’s P.P., Ltd.

BOTTOM ROW.—Left: Mr. W. H Thompson, a chemist with the Colonial Sugar Refining Co Sydney, sailed for Fiji by the “Monterey” ori June 24 to visit the Co.’s mills at Nausori and Lautoka. Right: Miss Hilda Taylor, who for-

merly was well-known in Fiji as a worker for the Methodist Mission, left Sydney by the June “Monterey” for Suva to take up a position in the Fiji Government’s Social Welfare Depart ment.