Solomon Is. Residents Help

Red Cross

Contributions to the Tulagi (Solomons Islands) branch of the Red Cross Society have been as follows: — September.—Mr. A. Cant, 10/-; Miss D. Harry, 10/6; Plant Guessing Competition, £l/1/6; Mem bers’ Weekly Donations, £2/19/6; Chief Officer “Pinna”, £1; Mrs. Campbell, £l/1/-; Natives of Lord Howe, £l/14/-; “Housey”—run by Mrs.

Scott and Miss Higgenbotham, £4; Sale of fruit, 8/6; teapots, £1; savouries, £6/4/-.

October. —Mr. and Mrs. Johns, £1; Sale of Faisi turtle shell, £l/6/-; Sale of stool from Major Sanders, 8/-; Mr. L. P. Jones, £l/10/-; Mr. C. E. J. Wilson, £l/1/-; Archery Competition —run by Mrs. Beveridge and Mrs. Train, £3/5/-; Mrs. F. N. Harris, £l/1/-; Mrs. R.

Hyne, £l/1/-; Sales: teapots, 4/6; savouries, £6; Members’ Weekly Subscriptions, £l/11/-.

November.—Captain Wilding, £l/10/-; Mr. P.

J. O’Brien, £l/1/-; Captain Bray, £5; Mr.

Wilbur Clarke, 10/-; Melbourne Cup Sweep B.P.’s (5%), £l/10/-; “Solomon Surprises”, produced by Miss Hackett, £36/17/4; Asia (Lord Howe), 6/-; Father Boch and Natives of Mission, £2O; Mr. and Mrs. Bernhardt, £l/1/-; Mr. Monckton, £5; Mr, and Mrs. Taylor, £5; Sales: Savouries, £5/12/6; fruit, £l/12/4; Chutney, jam, etc., from Faisi ladies, 11/-.

December.—W. Jack, 1/-; J. Riria, 1/-; L.

Lanhau, 1/-; G. Gideon, 1/-; M. Waitai, 1/-; A. Arifera, 1/-; Gaginna, 1/-; Esau, 1/-; W.

Paia, 1/-; Walter, 1/-; Mamarah, 1/-; Gagi, 2/-; Kilata, 1/-; Georgie, 1/-; K. Kisitee, 1/-.

The Supreme Court in New Guinea, after a lengthy hearing, finally decided that Mr. Nunan, a Rabaul sawmiller, was not guilty of the death of a native labourer, whom he had punched severely, for some misdemeanour, and who subse quently died of a ruptured spleen. The evidence indicated that the native could

very easily have been fatally injured,

and that he might have received the fatal injury in half a dozen ways. The Court, however, fined Mr. Nunan £3O for unlawful assault on the native.

Although war conditions have been, in a financial sense, “tough” on the Pacific missions, the general secretary of Over seas Missions for the Methodist Church of Australia, Rev. J. W. Burton, states that the total income for 1940 was £95,742, compared' with £93,785 in 1939.

Seeing the difficulties with which they were faced, all the officers of this mis

sionary organisation, early in the year

decided to do their utmost to meet a difficult situation, with the foregoing very satisfactory result.