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V.G.S. Associated With C. Sullivan

A MAN well known and popular in practically every corner of the South-western Pacific, Mr. Vincent G.

Smith, is now one of the principals in the

reconstructed Islands trading firm of C.

Sullivan and Company. He “took over” there in December last.

Mr. Smith has been travelling the Is lands for 26 years. He went out, first, as the representative of Thomas Brown and Co., general merchants, of Brisbane; af terwards, he transferred to Gardiners’ (forerunners of Sargood, Gardiner and Co.); and then, many years ago, he stepped off on his own account, as the

Islands representative of Nestles, Dewar’s Whisky, Edwards Dunlop, Tooth’s Brew ery, Hardy’s Wines, Paterson, Laing and Bruce Ltd., etc.

He made a regular tour of Papua, New Guinea, Solomons, Darwin and Thursday Island; and, as time passed, “Smithy’s” quaint grin became as well known to Islands folk as the Burns. Philp flag And the shrewd and observant commer cial traveller, on his part, could write a book on “Things I have seen when travelling”!

Everyone liked “Smithy”—he seemed to be on every boat. He was the first to buy the leave-going New Guinea miner a joyous noggin; he was the last to com miserate with the Papuan patrol-officer returning dismally from furlough.

Although he now is a Sydney business director, Mr. Smith does not contemplate severing Islands connections. Sullivans do a big trade with New Caledonia, and Mr. Smith still is the representative of the well-known firms enumerated above.

When our yellow visitors are gone from New Guinea, “Smithy” will be seen there again.

Mr. Arthur M. O. Farquhar, who spent over 40 years in Fiji in the service of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd., died recently in Sydney at the age of 69. He first was employed in the CSR laboratory at Rarawai, then on the managerial staff at Labasa and Nausori. He returned to Rarawai in 1900 as manager, later going to Lautoka in a similar capacity. Mr.

Farquhar retired in 1929 and came to Australia to live in retirement at Vaucluse.

Corporal G. F. Gee, who formerly was an Inspector in the New Guinea Depart ment of Agriculture, is at present at tached to an RAAF Weather Bureau station in Victoria.

Mr. V. G. Smith—a “snapshot” on an Islands liner, en route to Papua and New Guinea in 1939.