Tropicalities

rE directorate of Lever Bros, and Unilever, Ltd., has been reorganised.

Mr. Clement E. Davies, KC, MP, and Mr. Albert Van den Bergh, are among those who have retired, but Mr Davies remains legal adviser to the company.

Mr. Geoffrey Heyworth, formerly of Sydney, has been re-elected vice-chair man. This is one of the great inter national combines (annual profit, at least £12,000,000) which will be destroyed, if the democratic system is to survive, after the war. * NOW that Port Moresby is to have a good water supply and conse quently a less barren appearance in the dry seasons—it is to be hoped that public-spirited residents there will form a Street Planning Association. Co operative effort between citizens and Administration could do very much to beautify this little town —its topography and general situation are in favour of something of the kind—once water is available. Excellent results have been attained by a Street Planning Associa tion in Darwin, under the direction of the Administrator there, Mr. Abbott. * LORD Moyne is now secretary of State for the Colonies, in succession to the late Lord Lloyd.

Lord Moyne was a visitor to New Guinea, in his private yacht, some three or four years ago, and residents of that part of the world will remember the con troversy that ensued when he claimed

that he was the discoverer of the pigmy tribes of the northern slopes of the New Guinea mountains.

Lord Moyne’s scientific enthusiasm had run away with his care for historic fact, because the pigmies had been discovered many years before—probably by the late Father Kirschbaum.

Lord Moyne, who is 61 years old, is a very rich man. He was Mr. Walter E.

Guinness, a member of the famous brew ing family, and was made a peer in 1932.

He has given very distinguished service to the Empire as a member of various Governments, and as a member of vari ous im P° rtant colonial commissions, and ment ' * , T r r P HE people of Wau, New Guinea, -L raised no less than £B3/15/- for . . war funds, when they attended a P lc mc race meeting organised recently tho Wau Golf Club. There were some interesting races. In the Austra han-bred event, the favourite, Brown t? avld ’ . was sur P r ismgly left behind by th o sprinter, Dollar Princess; but when B + rowa David raced off into the rough, stumbled, and shed his rider (veteran Major E. B. Ayris) in a severe fall, it was realised that something was wrong, Ayris, when he limped back, concussed and badly bruised, reported that he had lost a stirrup early in the race. There were two other surprises when two of Mrs. Stewart’s horses, neither of which had been given a chance, romped home in their respective races.