About Islands People

Dr. A. Capel, of the Australian National Research Council, is at present in Sydney revising Hazlewood’s “Fijian Dictionary” for the Fiji Government. After collating all the manuscripts and published mater ial, he hopes to spend several months in the Colony finalising the work.

Miss Amy Richardson, organising sec retary of the Marist Medical Mission in the Solomon Islands, arrived in Sydney in June. Miss Richardson, who was trained at St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, was the first lay nursing sister appointed by Bishop Wade some years ago. There are now eight nurses connected with the Mission.

Mr. A. Ledger, of Nukualofa, Tonga, arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, re cently to join the Second N.Z. Expedi tionary Force.

Hon. Wilfrid Wise, Director of Public Works in Fiji, and a member of the Legislative Council, returned to the Colony, together with Mrs. Wise, in June after a holiday in New Zealand.

Our Thursday Island correspondent writes: In an article entitled “Memories of Louie Pothier” in the April “P.1.M.”, the whereabouts of Mr. Daniel Coulter Harman (late of Daru) seem to be en quired for—he is now on T.I. Formerly manager of the local branch of Hodels, Limited, he is at present running Har mans Pty., Ltd., dealing in marine pro ducts, and has a commission agency.

Pacific friends of Lady Pomare (whose husband the late Sir Maui Pomare, held the record in the New Zealand Parlia ment for the period he served as Mini ster in Charge of the Cook Islands), will regret to learn of her recent serious ill ness. Lady Pomare collapsed at her home at Lower Hutt, Wellington, recently.

Since then she has been nursed with de voted care by her only daughter, Mrs.

Te Rangihaeta. The latter, by the way, holds chiefly rank in Rarotonga, an is land that she visited on many occasions with her distinguished father. Te Raka haerea Pomare, the former Minister’s only surviving son, has been in camp of late with the Maori Battalion. He was

married not long ago to a member of the Ormond family, of Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand.

Mr. Stuart Drummond Lade, 8.A., Dip.

Ed., head of the London Missionary Society’s school at Poreporena, Papua, died in the European Hospital, Port Moresby, on June 8, after a short illness.

Mr. Lad° was travelling secretary for the Australian Student Christian Movement in 1936, and represented that body at the Pacific Area Conference in America four years ago. He arrived in Papua in 1939 and took over the school on the transfer of Mr. P. Chatterton to Delena.

Mr. Eric Hopkins, of the Rabaul Carry ing Co., New Guinea, arrived in Australia recently to join the R.A.A.F.

MISS A. C. ARMSTRONG, of the Melanesian Mission’s teaching staff at the New Torgil School, Lolowai, Aoba Island, New Hebrides, is at present spending furlough at her home in New Zealand. She has been a member of the Mission since 1935. -Melaniesian Mission Photo.

Rev. C. M. Churchward has completed his “Rotuman Grammar and Dictionary” and it is expected that the book will be published shortly. The Fiji Administra tion, the Bishop Museum, and the Methodist Missionary Society, are assisting financially with its publication.

Mr. W. J. Wigmore, an old-established planter in Rarotonga, has been elected to the position of European member of the Rarotonga Fruit Advisory Committee, which was left open by the resignation of Mr. J. J. Murray.