The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

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

Pacific Travellers

p. 66 · Read in the full issue

Mr. Hugh R. Goodwyn, of W. R. Car penter and Co., Ltd., married Mrs. Molly Thompson at St. Xavier’s Church, Rabaul, New Guinea, on December 6.

The reception was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Phillpott.

TOP ROW.—Left: Mrs. J. Bundle, wife of the chairman of the Methodist Mission in Papua, returned to Samarai by the November “Macd hui”, after bringing Miss D. Glasson, one of the Mission’s staff, to Sydney for medical treatment.

Right: Mrs. A. Ritchie left Sydney by the last “Macdhui” for Bulolo, New Guinea, to join her husband who is an employee of Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd.

SECOND ROW.—Left: Carol Munster, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. C. Munster, well-known plan tation owners of Lorengau, Manus, T.N.G., sailed from Sydney by the “Macdhui” late in November to spend holidays with her parents.

Centre and right: John and Joan Temple Watts left Sydney by the December “Malaita” for Port Moresby to spend Christmas with their parents.

Mr. Temple Watts is general superintendent of the Australasian Petroleum Co. in Papua.

THIRD ROW. —Left: Mrs. L. M. Annan, whose husband Is in the Department of Public Works, Papua, sailed for Port Moresby by the last “Malaita”. She recently arrived in Australia from England. Right: Mrs. H. L. Downing, who recently married the popular A.D.O. at Kleta, Bougainville Island, T.N.G., left Sydney for Buka Passage by the December “Malaita”. She was formerly Miss Dorothea Acocks.

BOTTOM ROW. —Brian Ashwell returned to New Guinea at the end of November after schooling in Australia, His father Is on the staff of Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd. Right: Patricia Welby, whose father is an officer at the Port Moresby Radio Station, sailed for Papua recently on school holidays.