About Islands People

Mr. J. T. Johnson, a well-known resi dent of Suva, Fiji, who has given much public service for the benefit of the com munity, was waited upon by a party of leading citizens on November 14, and given a presentation in commemoration of the fact that he had that day reached his 70th birthday. Flattering things about the life and service of Mr. Johnson were said by Sir Maynard Hedstrom and Mr.

A. A. Ragg.

Mr. W. C. H. Simpson died in Wau, New Guinea, last month, at the age of 36. He was a miner, and his relations reside at Bulolo, New Guinea.

Captain A. Middenway, formerly of the Solomon Islands Service, enlisted in the Australian 11th Garrison Battalion in November, and assumed duty as Chief Clerk in the Headquarters Office of a special camp near Sydney. Although he had held a commission, he enlisted as a private, but was quickly promoted to sergeant.

Miss Jean Loudon, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Loudon, of Eilogo Plantation, Papua, has announced her engagement to Mr. Randolph Brewster, of Los Angeles, California. Mr. Brewster is attached to the K.N.I.L.M. Fairchild Aerial Survey, operating in conjunction with the Australasian Petroleum Co. in Papua. The marriage will take place early next year, before Mr. Brewster leaves for America.

Rev. R. Godfrey, who served for a number of years as a Melanesian Mis sionary in the New Hebrides and who

now is vicar of Aramoho, N. Zealand, has been appointed representative of Melan esia on the N.Z. Board of Missions, in place of Rev. H. E. K. Fry.

Mr. Ronald P, Robertson (“Robbie”), late of Burns. Philo staff at Rabaul and Kavieng, was married on December 2. at Mosman, Sydney, to Miss Jane B. Free man, of Queensland, daughter of Mr.

Arthur Freeman, late of Fiji.

Mr. E. W. Sandys, of Nomuka, Tonga, died a few months ago at the age of 83, He arrived in the Tongan Islands in 1875, and he carried in his wonderful memory details of practically all that had hap pened in Tonga for sixty years. Unfor tunately, he could never be induced to write his reminiscences, and so much valuable history has been lost. The old man had a remarkable genealogical tree, which he had had sent out to him from Ireland, and which traced his family back to Richard Sandys, Archbishop of York, 1577-1589. The family of the late Lord Roberts was connected with a branch of this family. Mr. Sandys is survived by his widow, two sons, one daughter and several grand-children.

Mrs. Telesia Williams, wife of Mr. A.

Williams, plumber, of Apia, Western Sa moa, died in the Government Hospital, Motootua, on November 10. She was the daughter of the late High Chief Tuala, of Leauvaa, who established the Leauvaa village in Upolu after his own village of Lealatele at Savaii had been destroyed by the volcanic eruption in Samoa nearly 35 years ago.

Mr. R. Hendriksen, formerly attached to the Samoan Administration, has been appointed a surveyor in the N.Z. Lands Department.

Mr. and Mrs. Gor don Harris, of Djaul, have left New Guinea for England, where they will make their perm anent home.

They disposed of their plantation at Djaul to Mr. E.

Miller. This photo graph of Mr. Harris was taken in Sydney a year ago.

Mr. H. T. Cold ham, well known planter of Witu, T.N.G., returned to the Mandated Territory by the “Macdhui” at the end of November after three months’ holiday in Melbourne.

Miss Joyce Hides was a passenger on the “Macd hui” in November bound for Port Moresby, Papua, to take up a posi tion as nursing sister at the Euro pean Hospital.

Mr. R. Chant, well known man ager of Mandated Alluvials, N.L., at Port Moresby, re turned to Papua by the last “Macd hui” after a two months’ business and health trip to Australia.