About Islands People

Mr. G. A. Loudon, of Port Moresby, Papua, is at present spending a few weeks at Wentworth Falls, NSW. He had a bad attack of influenza contracted in Papua, but is now fit and well again.

Mrs. Constance Wright, who is one of the best known and highly-esteemed pioneer women of Papua and New Guinea, is now a resident of Charters Towers, North Queensland.

Mr. A. S. Evensen, manager of Coconut Products Ltd., Pondo, New Guinea, who recently was ordered South for health reasons, arrived in Sydney in mid-March by the mail-plane. Mr. H. R.Goodwyn, of W. R. Carpenter Ltd.’s Rabaul staff, has assumed the management for the time being.

The Governor of Fiji and High Com missioner of the Western Pacific, Sir Harry Luke, arrived in Auckland in mid- February by the “Mariposa”, and will spend a few weeks’ holiday in Rotorua and Wellington, NZ.

Mrs. R. B. Coudace, and her daughter, Miss Jean Croudace, of Western Samoa, who have been holidaying in Sydney for some weeks, left for New Zealand, en route to Apia, early in March. They were entertained at several farewell parties, prior to departure.

Mr. R. E. Mountstephens, who has been a planter in Vanua Levu, Fiji, for 10 years, arrived in Sydney in December, and since has joined the Royal Aus tralian Navy, with commissioned rank.

Mrs. Mountstephens is residing at Bay view, near Sydney.

Miss Hazel Colebrook, who was a well known member of the staff of Messrs.

W. R. Carpenter & Co., in Salamaua, New Guinea, died in Prince Alfred Hos pital, Sydney, at the beginning of March.

Miss Colebrook, who came from Goul burn, NSW, had been twelve years in the Territory. She became seriously ill on the ship on her way to Sydney.

Mr. and Mrs. Walker-Flynn, of Rabaul, New Guinea, left the Territory recently for leave in Australia. Mr. Walker-Flynn is attached to the Public Works Depart ment, and during his absence will be relieved by Mr. J, L. Ormonde.

Now in Sydney waiting to be called up by the RAAF (for which he has been doing his preliminary training), is Mr.

J. B. S>. Brammell, ARM in the Papuan Government’s service. Mr. Brammell, who has been in Sydney since September, is the son of the late Mr. B. W. Brammell, Commissioner for Native Affairs, and his sister is Miss Elsie Brammell, of the Australian Museum’s ethnological staff in Sydney. Of late he has been stationed at Lake Kutubu, an area in the north west of Papua, where he did exploratory work with Mr. Ivan Champion.

MR. NOEL McFARLANE, one of Suva’s rising young lawyers, and MR. A. J. ARMSTRONG, who has just retired from the Fiji District Administration, in which on several occasions he acted as Assistant Adviser on Native Affairs and also as Chief Police Magistrate at Suva.