Miss A. Hagen In Important

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rE good-looking and popular Alex Hagen, daughter of well-known “Tibby” Hagen (New Caledonian merchant and shipowner), has gone to Noumea as secretary to the new Ameri can Consul there, Mr. Karl MacVitty.

This is acclaimed in Sydney, where Miss Hagen has many friends, as an admir able appointment. Miss Hagen was formerly attached to the French Con sulate in Sydney; she is a very capable and cool-headed young lady; and her knowledge of commercial and official his tory and affairs of her homeland of New Caledonia should be valuable to the American Consulate.

Nicholas Hagen Now Recovered

Mr. and Mrs. N. Hagen returned to New Caledonia, from Sydney, at the end of April. About nine months ago, Mr.

Hagen, during one of his frequent busi ness visits, contracted severe bronchitis, which turned quickly to bad pneumonia; and Mr. Hagen thereafter spent some months in St. Vincent’s private hospital.

Mrs. Hagen went to Sydney, by aero plane. when her husband was in a critical condition, and she remained with him there during a long convalescence. He now appears completely recovered, and is again his jovial self —except that he has lost considerable weight.

Mr. W. D. Carew, Fiji District Com missioner, on secondment to the Wes tern Pacific High Commission, has been transferred to Malaya as a Magistrate in the Colonial Legal Service.

Mr. J. Beaumont, of Mandres, New Britain, married Miss Claire Manning, of England, at Rabaul, New Guinea, in April.

Rev. W. J. A. Daniels sailed from Syd ney in April for Thursday Island, where he is engaged in mission work for the Torres Strait Mission.