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Marquesas Colony Project Abandoned

MR. FRED. BRIGGS, who was the prime mover in a scheme to found an "Ideal Colony” on Nukuhiva, Marquesas Group. Fr. Oceania, paid a visit to the “P.1.M.” office on August 8 to inform us that he has dissociated himself from the movement. The plan has now been abandoned, as he received no active help from would-be “Utopians”.

Mr. Briggs and his young wife have just purchased an island off the Queens land coast and this will act as a base for the wanderings through the Pacific which they hope to make in their yacht “Con nella”. Later they will settle down on their newly-acquired property. (See article entitled “Pacific Arcadia” on page 22 of this issue, printed before Mr. Briggs informed us of the abandon ment of the Marquesas scheme).

Pat Midden way, young son of Captain Middenway, late District Officer in the Solomon Islands, is making a name for himself in Australia as a first-class athlete. At the end of July, he won the North Sydney Intermediate High School’s 100 yds. and 220 yds. junior champion ships and gained second place in the high jump, thus collecting sufficient points to carry off the School Junior Silver Cup. He already holds the 1939 State swimming championship for lads of 13.