Death Of Captain H. Suffern

THE many friends of Captain H. Suffern will hear with regret of his death on September 27, at the age of 68.

Captain Suffern was well known in the Pacific —he‘was engaged in the ship ping trade, carrying phosphates from Nauru and Ocean Island, for 15 years. In 1930, he was appointed harbour and deep sea mooring-master at the phosphate is land of Makatea (French Oceania), where he remained until compelled by ill-health to return to his home near Melbourne, last November.

Mrs. F. M. Crawford, formerly well known in Fiji as Miss Joan Brierly, re cently joined her husband in Sarawak, British North-west Borneo, where he is employed by the S.O.L. oil concern. Pre viously Mr. Crawford was connected with Papua Oil Developments Limited, in the Territory of Papua.

Mrs. L. Brodie, who has carried on a bakery business in Rabaul. New Guinea, for some years, arrived in Australia at the end of October. Her bakery premises were destroyed in the fire at Carpenter and Co. Ltd.’s store in August last.

Sister Holroyd-Harris, formerly of Wau, New Guinea, is now stationed at Madang Hospital. A medical clinic and new sisters’ quarters were recently op ened at Madang and new residences for the Medical Officer and the Medical As sistant are almost completed.

Francis Durante, aged 24, and Peter Maillie, aged 17, Torres Strait Islanders, attached to the Roman Catholic Mission on Hammond Island, have been awarded Certificates of Merit by the Royal Hu mane Society for rescuing two European women when a dinghy sank in rough seas a few months ago.