Judge Stuart

His "Roundabout Route" to British Guiana

IT was announced in December “PIM” that Judge W. H. Stuart, who had been Chief Justice of Tonga since 1938. had been promoted to the position of Chief Justice of British Guiana.

When that was published in December, Judge Stuart was already on his way to the British West Indies, but his journey was doomed to sad interruption. He and Mrs. Stuart embarked on the liner

“Rangitane” and the “Rangitane”—as described elsewhere —was overtaken by two German raiders on November 27 and savagely shelled, and sunk.

Judge and Mrs. Stuart were among the people taken aboard the raider and carried around the Central Pacific, and eventually landed on Emirau, in New Guinea, and thence brought to Australia.

In Auckland, on November 25, Mr. A.

C. Turnbull, Administrator of Western Samoa, said good-bye to Judge and Mrs.

Stuart, and did not expect he would ever see them again. On January 5, Judge and Mrs. Stuart, having been removed by an Australian ship from Emirau Island, in New Guinea, along with 494 other castaways, arrived in Sydney; and one of the first to greet them was Mr.

Turnbull, who in the meantime had come to Sydney to attend the Pacific Copra Conference.

Judge and Mrs. Stuart, in Sydney, on January 6, were very busy obtaining a supply of clothes, etc., so that they might continue their journey to British Guiana.

Judge Stuart, on Tongan Bench.