"Bp Magazine" Is

Discontinued

MANY people will learn, with regret, that, owing to the publishing diffi culties created by the war, Burns.

Philo & Co. Ltd. have discontinued the publication of their well-known quar terly, “BP Magazine”.

It was first published, as a travel magazine. 14 years ago; it was edited by people who demanded a high literary standard: and, typographically, it was one of the finest periodicals produced in Australia. It served a definite purpose in two directions —it regularly presented to all parts of the world the most attrac tive features of travel; and it gave substantial encouragement to South Seas writers, artists and photo graphers, of whose best it purchased a good deal. Its extinction, by circum stances beyond the control of its owners, removes a periodical of a type that, unfortunately, is all too rare.

Mr. W. J. Burton, manager of the ship ping department of the Vacuum Oil Company, Sydney, concluded 40 years of service with the company last month.

Mr. Francis Edgar Williams, Government Anthropologist in Papua since 1922, will in future be Dr. F. E. Williams —the degree of Doctor of Science has been conferred upon him by the University of Oxford. He took the degree of Master of Arts of Adelaide University; served in the 1914-18 war; took up the Rhodes Scholarship which he had won in 1914 and specialised in anthropology at Oxford; and, two years after he was appointed to Papua, he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, and studied at the London University with

Malinowski. He is 49 years old and is living in Adelaide at present.

Mrs. Wiki Byron, hon. secretary of the Polynesian Club of Sydney, received news that her father, Tamaiharoa te Tauri Mokena (Mr. Harry Morgan), died at his home at Awahou, Lake Rotorua, on May 26. He was an elder of the Ngati Rangiwewehi hapu of the Arawa tribe. Mrs. Byron’s son is Sergeant H.

J. Byron, probably one of the youngest non-coms, serving with the Australian Imperial Forces.