Lighting Of Port Vila
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From Our Own Correspondent PORT VILA, April 12.
IT is expected that work will commence soon on the electric lighting of Port Vila by the Unelco Company of Noumea (New Caledonia). This work had been temporarily retarded because of the war. and the consequent difficult eco nomic situation which arose in the archipelago.
Mr. O. Savage, formerly manager of A.
B. Donald’s stores at Mangaia, Cook Islands, has now taken up a position in that firm at Rarotonga. Mr. G. L. Snow, of Penrhyn Island, has taken his place at Mangaia.
Back in Sydney after a sojourn among the natives of the interior of Guadalcanal is Miss Sylvia Davis, an attractive, fair haired Sydney girl, who has been paint ing native life. During eight months in the Solomons, Miss Davis collected por traits and scenes of village life, which she will show in Sydney in May. Miss Davis is the daughter of Mr. L. J. Davis who has been prospecting for gold on Giiadal- S a ii ai \ first, she says, she experienced difficulty in persuading the Solomon Is landers, especially the women, to pose for her. They imagined that their spirits would be transferred to the canvas! Once however, they understood that no harm would befall them, Miss Davis had little trouble with sitters.