Papuan Officers on War
pp. 47-48 · Read in the full issue
Service
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, July 24.
TWENTY-SIX officers of the Papuan Administration have enlisted and a number of others are about to do so, the Administrator (Hon. H. L. Mur ray) told members of the Papuan Legis lative Council at the annual session on July 15. Many more had applied for permission, but were refused owing to the Government’s inability to carry on with out essential services.
A new member of the Pacific Islands Society is Mr. Gerald V. Maxwell, CMG, formerly Commissioner for Native Affairs in Fiji, and now a resident of Darling Point, Sydney. After a distinguished career in Fiji, Mr. Maxwell served in Kenya Crown Colony.
Mrs. Beryl Harper, who has gold mining interests in Wewak, Northern New Guinea, returned to the Territory in July after a holiday in Australia.
Friends of NMP James Rennie, of Rarotonga, who is now in Egypt with the New Zealand Forces, will be in terested to learn of the birth of his daughter. Mr. Rennie was married to Miss Clemency Williams, daughter of Mr.
Gordon Williams, of Hawkes Bay, NZ, before he left for the Middle East. Mrs.
Rennie is a direct descendant of Arch deacon Henry Williams, one of the pioneer missionaries of New Zealand.
Some time ago she spent several months in Rarotonga. Her husband studied at Te Aute College, which the Williams family established in Hawkes Bay for the benefit of Maori students. Some notable men, including Dr. Peter H. Buck, were educated at Te Aute.
Mr. H. Gow, of the staff of Burns Philp (SS) Co., Suva, Fiji, is at present in Sydney on furlough. He is expected to return to the Colony at the end 01 August.