Another Romance

THE Pacific Islands Society’s second romance was announced in August.

From a chance meeting at one of the Society’s meetings there has resulted the engagement of Miss Gabrielle Cos set, only daughter of the late Mr. R.

W. Cosset, formerly an Islands resident, to Mr. R. W. I. Band, BA, of the Mala yan Civil Service, and until recently administrative officer at Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. Miss Cos set, who is secretary of the Board of Social Studies at the University of Syd ney, is a niece of the late Lieutenant- Colonel Cosset, once Commissioner in Rarotonga. The young couple will settle in Malaya.

The other marriage, which arose out of a Pacific Islands Society meeting, was that of Mr. Gordon Smith (New Guinea) and Miss Anna Laurenson (Samoa). The more frivolous members of the Society are elaborating a plan under which their tireless secretary (Eric Ramsden) will appear in future at Society gatherings in the habiliments of Cupid—bow and arrow, and a pair of wings.

Mr. R. Dunlop, a former New Zealand mining engineer who has been on the Morobe Goldfields for the past couple of years, has been appointed Inspector of Mines there during the absence on fur lough of Mr. A. Fry.

Mr. W. H. Leydin, of Port Moresby, Papua, arrived in Australia recently to join the Navy. He was in the Navy many years ago and served in it during the last war.