About Islands People

Messrs. W. H. Smith, P. F. Cody and T.

Victor, directors of the Loloma and Em peror gold mining companies in Fiji, arrived at Suva in mid-August to make an inspection of the workings at Tavua.

They returned to Melbourne by the “Mariposa” early in September.

Miss R. Ayo has resigned from the staff of the Anglican School of St. Mary at Labasa, Fiji.

Monsieur d’Arcimoles, of Messageries Maritimes agency at Noumea, New Cale donia, has been transferred to Tahiti, for a short term of service with the Papeete agency.

Mr. J. Probert, Inspector of Police at Suva, returned to Fiji in August after a holiday visit to Australia.

Miss Olive Stevens, of the Australian Board of Missions staff, left Sydney by the August “Bulolo” to visit the various Anglican mission stations irj Papua.

Mr. Lionel Gordon Baker married Miss Agnes (“Bonnie”) Hamilton at St. Paul’s Church, Samarai, Eastern Papua, on August 11. Miss Ailsa Gribben was brides maid and Mr. J. Amorous best man. Mr.

Baker is a member of the staff of the Commonwealth Copra Company’s Gili Gili plantation.

Mr. A. R. Robertson, formerly of British Guiana, arrived in Fiji in August to take up the post of Depu y Colonial Treasurer.

He was accompanied by Mrs. Robertson and their daughter.

Mr. Lou Fahev has been appointed manager of Gili Gili plantation. Eastern Papua, which is controlled by Lever Bros.

Mr. Lewis Lett, of Port Moresby. Papua, was among the authors commended by the judges who awarded the Sydney "Bulletin’s” S. H. Prior Memorial prize.

Four outstanding works were commended, and among them was “The Papuan Achievement”, by Lewis Lett.

Mr. J. R. Halligan, who is in charge of the section of the Prime Minister’s De partment responsible for the admini stration of Australia’s Pacific territories,

TOP. —Left: Miss L. Dalziell sailed by the August “Bulolo” from Sydney for Samarai.

Papua, where she is employed with Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd. Right: Mr. T. Fitton, of Steam ships Trading Co., Ltd., Port Moresby, returned to Papua by the “Bulolo” recently, after six months’ holiday in Australia.

BOTTOM. —Mr. and Mrs. A. Gazzard sailed for Salamaua by the August “Bulolo”, after eight months’ furlough in Australia. Mr. Gazzard is employed by Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd.

returned to Australia from Europe at the end of August. He was present in Geneva when the Mandates Commission received the annual report of the Administrator of New Guinea. Mr. Halligan said that the report was very carefully examined but that no criticism was tendered.

Mr. Norman Goodall, Foreign Secretary in England of the London Missionary Society, is at present visiting L.M.S. Mis sion stations in Central Pacific. He is ex pected to return to Sydney early in Octo ber, and intends to leave in the middle of that month with Mr. H. L. Hurst, L.M.S. secretary in Sydney, on a visit to Papua.

Mr. R. Ginn arrived in New Zealand from Fiji by the “Monowai” in mid- August to marry Miss B. C. Duff, of Wellington, who formerly was a member of the nursing staff of the Colonial War Memorial Hospital at Suva.

Mr. R. H. Brown, manager of the Apia branch of Burns Philp (S.S.) Co., Ltd., arrived in New Zealand on furlough in mid-August. He was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Nellie Brown, who is well known in Tonga where she lived for some years with her father the late Judge Skeen, Chief Justice of Tonga. After a month’s stay in Auckland, Mr. and Mrs Brown will cross to Sydney to spend a short holiday in Australia.

Mr. W. S. Marchant, 0.8. E., formerly Deputy Provincial Commissioner in Tan ganyika, East Africa, will arrive in Tulagi, British Solomon Islands, early in November to take up the position of Resident Commissioner in succession to Mr. F. N. Ashley, who left the Protector ate in April on long leave prior to re tirement. A meeting of the 8.5.1. Ad visory Council will take place shortly after Mr. Marchant’s arrival.

Mrs. W. Caldwell, wife of Mr. W. Cald well of the Fiji Colonial Service and daughter of Captain W. Wilson, a very old and esteemed resident of Levuka, Fiji, died on September 3. Mrs. Caldwell was taken ill while on a return trip from abroad with her husband, and on arrival in Australia was admitted to a private hospital in Sydney, where she died. She left four daughters.

Miss Amy Thompson, of the Melanesian Mission, will sail from Sydney for the Solomons by the next “Malaita” after furlough in England. It is expected that she will later proceed to Arawe, New Britain, where she was stationed prior to going on leave.

Mr. M. Toder, formerly secretary to the Government Hospital at Apia, returned to New Zealand from Western Samoa in August, after completing his term of service with the Administration.

TOP—Left: Mr. C. F. Cowley, who is an Assist ant Resident Magistrate in Eastern Papua, ar rived in Sydney by the August “Macdhui” on short furlough. Right: Mrs. R. Moffatt, of Eastern Papua, reached Sydney by the last “Macdhui” and went on to Melbourne to spend three months’ holiday. In their ketch “Gitana”, she and her husband in June went to the rescue of the South African yacht “Lands End” which ran on a reef near Sudest Island, Eastern Papua; and they took the crew to Misima Island.

SECOND ROW.—Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Rice departed from Sydney for Fiji by the “Monterey” recently, after spending several weeks’ holiday in Australia. He is agent for the Shell Oil Company at Lautoka.

BOTTOM.—Left: Mrs. H. J. Tink returned to Sydney from New Guinea by the last “Macdhui” after several months’ holiday at Kimadan Estates, near Kavieng, New Ireland. Right: Mr.

R. Wayne, Interpreter at the Supreme Court, Rabaul, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney by the "Macdhui” recently for three months’ holiday.

He was accompanied by Mrs. Wayne and their daughter, Janet.

Mr. J. H. L. Waterhouse, who has had 30 years experience of Melanesian people,

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ministration? native sSiool at Nodup, near Rabaul, arrived in Sydney by the last “Malaita” on long leave. His health has not been good, and he is now due for an extensive medical overhaul. For the last 10 years Mr. Waterhouse has devoted himself to the study of what is known as the Blanche Bay language, spoken by over 30,000 natives in New Britain, and by several thousands in New Ireland, and recently he compiled the “New Guinea

Language Book—Blanche Bay Dialect”.

This is a monumen J al work, of great value to the Administration, insomuch that it provides officials with a means of getting a working knowledge of a dialect that is used in some form or other over a large area of the Territory. Mr. Water house has collected and classified many hundreds of words and phrases in com mon use.

Mr. N. Heffernan, of Mt. Kasi, Vanua Levu, Fiji, recently married Miss Alice Simpson, at Kuladrusi, Savu Savu East.