Handiwork Of The Rurutu Islanders

Mr. R. C. Hutchinson, an expert chemist employed on the staff of the Department of Agriculture, New Guinea, returned to Rabaul early in December, after three months’ furlough in Australia. He held

the BSc of Tasmanian University; and, while on furlough in Australia, he sat for examination and secured the coveted degree of Master of Science of the University of Melbourne.

When Commandant Richard Brunot, as Free French Governor-General in the Pacific, was in Tahiti, a few months ago, the community of Rurutu Islanders at Papeete presented him with gifts of hand-make rugs, baskets, hats, and other examples of their expert workmanship. Madame Brunot. in the centre of the Photograph, is seen admiring some of the presents. Commandant Brunot was recalled to london a short time afterwards, following a series of arrests of high officials in Tahiti; it was reported from USA in November that he passed through San Francisco early in the month en route to England to report to General de Gaulle at Free French headquarters. —Photo: P. Simpson.