A Real Fish
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Mr. J. H. Ahern, general business manager of Australian Petroleum Devel opment Co. in Port Moresby, is now at Kariava, the company’s drilling site on the Vailala River. He is acting as gen eral superintendent in place of Mr. H.
Temple Watts, who goes on furlough in Australia.
A daughter was born to Te Upoko Te Pa, wife of Mr. Ralph J. A. Ingram, at their home in Rarotonga, recently.
Mr. J. T. Benstead, formerly director of Public Works in Papua, has been appointed to the vacancy on the Pacific Islands Society’s Council in succession to the late Mr. R. W. G. Gosset, once of Rarotonga. On his retirement from the Islands, Mr. Benstead settled in Sydney.
Mr. F. B. Godson, of Itikinumu Planta tion, Papua, arrived in Australia re cently on leave. Mr. G. T. Gemmel, of Baubauguina, is acting as manager in Mr.
Godson’s absence.
Miss Elizabeth Grant, Miss Hazel Wilson, Miss Katie Wilson and Miss Dorothy Patterson, who arrived in Fiji recently, have taken up positions as staff nurses in the Fiji Nursing Service.
Mr. R. Bentley, well-known in Fiji as a boatbuilder in the Public Works Ser vice, has retired.
Mr. Pat Moore, of Stephens Aviation Co., Wau, New Guinea, will be leaving the Territory shortly for the Malay States, where he has accepted a posi tion as a commercial pilot.
Arthur Robinson, of Vunilagi Estate, Vanua Levu, Fiji, sends this photograph of a “nice little fish”, and says: “On November 15 it was speared by the gentleman who holds one end of the pole. The fish is named Ulurua in Fiji (meaning, in English, double-headed). In reality, it is a huge parrot-fish, green in colour, with brown trace lines, which give it a very pretty appearance when fresh out of the water. The large prominent knob on top of the head is why it is called two-headed. Very few Euro peans would think of buying a cut portion of this fish—size and colour detract from its value, yet they would miss eating the finest fish in Fiji-much better eating than that aristocrat the Nuqa. The fish weighed 82 lb., and is not a large specimen—I have seen some double its size.