Killed In Air Raid
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Former Resident of Papua
ADVICE was received in Sydney in October that Mr. Alastair Ross, formerly a well-known Government servant in Papua, had been killed as the result of an air raid. Mr. Ross, who re tired from the Territory service about nine years ago, and made his home in London, had acted as an air warden, and it was while on duty on October 20 that he met his death. He is survived by his widow, and a son and daughter.
Mr. Ross’s last official position was in the Government Stores Branch at Port Moresby. Mr. Douglas Ross, his brother, is still a resident of Papua.
Rev. W. and Mrs. Wiedemann, of the Melanesian Mission’s station at Sag Sag, New Britain, T.N.G., are expected to arrive in Australia shortly.
Mr, Kenneth H. Bradshaw, a nephew of Mrs. Munro and Mrs. Bock, two well known residents of Port Moresby, has been selected Queensland’s Rhodes Scholar for 1941.
Mr. J. McWhinney, who has been ap pointed to command the Norfolk Island Infantry Detachment, was a member of the Australian Forces which captured German New Guinea in 1914.
Brig.-Gen. T. Griffiths, former Admini strator of New Guinea and also of Nauru, and also chairman of at least two Federal Commissions of Enquiry in New Guinea, who has been acting in an hon orary advisory and liaison capacity with the Department of Defence Co-ordination in Melbourne, has relinquished that posi tion. The Prime Minister paid a public tribute to the selfless work of General Griffiths, on his retirement. The General still maintains his interest in the Islands, and is always happy to meet former Nauruan and New Guinea friends.
Among recent arrivals in Australia, on leave from the Solomons, are Messrs. A.
Waddell and C. E. N. Bengough, Admini strative Officers of San Cristoval and Malaita respectively. Mr. Bengough has been relieved at Malaita by Mr. J. K.
Brownlees, recently returned to the Pro tectorate from leave spent in Sydney. All Civil Service leave from the Solomons has been cancelled until further notice, due to war conditions, except in special circumstances.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Tucker, SD.A, mission aries, have been transferred from the New Hebrides to the Solomon Islands, where Mr. Tucker will take over the in dustrial worx of the mission at Batuna, in the Marovo Lagoon. They will be fol lowed, in the New Hebrides, by Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Martin, who have arrived in Australia from Fiji on furlough. Mr. Mar tin will be the industrial supervisor of the mission, and assistant teacher in the Aore training school.