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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 December 1939Vol. X, No. 5

Islands Travellers

p. 59 · Read in the full issue

TOP.—From left: Mr. J. W. Houston, who has been transferred from the Melbourne office of Australasian Petroleum Co. Pty., Ltd., to the Port Moresby branch, sailed for Papua by the “Tasman” at the end of November. Miss C.

White and her mother, Mrs. W. D. Chawner, whose husband is associated with the A.P.C. concern, returned to Papua, after a holiday trip to America. Mrs. G. Barrow sailed for Port Moresby by the same vessel after a visit to England—Mr. Barrow is an employee of A.P.C.

SECOND ROW. —Seeing his two children, Carol and Chris, safely on board the December “Malaita” was Mr. C. J. Brennan, of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., Edie Creek, T.N.G. They will spend their school holidays in New Guinea in the care of Miss W. Scope (right). At the left of the group is Mrs. J. Robinson, also from Edie Creek, who now is spending furlough in Sydney.

BOTTOM.—A party of Marist missionaries bound for the Solomons by the last “Malaita”.

From left: Father M. McMahon, S.M., for Visale; Brother Joseph Redman, Kieta; Brother Paul Riggs, Kieta; and Father A. Duhamel, S.M., Visale.