Personal Notes

Sir Alfred Karney Young, who was Chief Justice of Fiji and Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific from 1923 until 1929, died at Cape Town, South Africa, early in January.

Rev. and Mrs. A. Mason, of Malaita, Solomon Islands, who have been serving with the Melanesian Mission in BSI for well over 25 years, passed through Syd ney in December. They went on to New Zealand to spend furlough and visit their son John, who is at school in the Dominion.

Private E. A. J. Edwards, of Norfolk Island, who now is in the AIF, was offi cially reported in December as “on the seriously ill list”; early in January his condition improved, however, and his name was removed from the list.

Mr. Robert Cameron, Financial Agent in Sydney for the London Missionary Society, returned to Australia in Decem ber after a visit to Papua.

A Xmas card indicates that an old friend, Mr. M. Harper, formerly a trader and planter in the Solomons, is now a Warrant Officer on active service in the Australian Navy.

Archdeacon A. E. Teall, of the Mela nesian Mission, Lolowai, New Hebrides, and Mrs. Teall, are at present in Tas mania on furlough.

Messrs. George Brunt, Eric Groves, Bernard Hoppe, and David Souton, for mer residents of Western Samoa, now are serving overseas with the NZ Forces.

Miss Joyce Gridley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H, Gridley, of Kieta, New Guinea, was married to Mr. Dudley Young, at Wooloowin Methodist Church, Queensland, on December 23.

Mr. William Parker, RAN, married Miss Rita Legge at St. George’s Church, Rabaul, New Guinea, on December 6.