Polynesian"

Knighthood Sought For "A Great Polynesian"

CALLING him “a great Polynesian and a scientist and scholar deservedly worthy of an honour from His Majesty the King,” Mr. R. W. Gosset, at the annual meeting of the Pacific Islands Club, in Sydney, on April 28, moved that the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Hon. P. Fraser) be asked to include the name of Professor Peter H.

Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa) in the next Birthday Honors List.

“I think it is quite within the province of a society such as ours,” said Mr. Gos set, ‘‘to make such a recommendation. I know that it has been done by other bodies and has met with success. The fact that Professor Buck is a resident in Hawaii should not debar him from receiving this honour. He is still a Brit ish subject, and one of whom we are all proud.”

The motion was unanimously carried.

The secretary (Mr. Eric Ramsden) remarked that no honour below that of knighthood would be fitting for Dr. Buck.

Three other Polynesians, Sir James Carroll, Sir Maui Pomare, and Sir Apirana Ngata, had been knighted in the past.

Miss M. J. Brabant, of the Audit De partment, of the Fiji Civil Service, arrived in Australia in April on six months’ leave.

A daughter Gwendyth Talei was born to Rev. and Mrs. R. S. Walker, of the Methodist Mission at Cakaudrove, Fiii on April 21.

The American 44-feet ketch-rigged yacht “Silver Spray’’, owned by Mr. E.

J. Thomas, of San Francisco, which visited many Pacific islands in 1938 and 1939, and which has spent 10 months in Auck land, has left the New Zealand coast for another cruise in the Pacific.